Real Time Crime Center

In May of 2015, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s (SLMPD) Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) was unveiled at Police Headquarters located at 1915 Olive. The RTCC is manned with Commissioned Police Officers 24-hours a day and 365 days a year.

The RTCC took over the functions of the SLMPD Command Post, quickly becoming the technology and information center for the SLMPD.

The Detectives assigned to the RTCC gather and disseminate information throughout the City of St. Louis. The RTCC is focused on monitoring, deterring, and evaluating criminal activity in real-time by using surveillance cameras, fixed and mobile license plate recognition (LPR) systems, crime analysis and other law enforcement software and databases. The RTCC provides investigative support to the first responders on scenes, as well as to the Detectives handling the follow-up investigations. The RTCC is focused on improving SLMPD’s situational awareness with the #1 goal to increase the safety of all SLMPD Police Officers and the community we serve.

The Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) is a regional asset, and its mission is to provide critical information not only to our own SLMPD officers, but all neighboring law enforcement agencies. The center gives the ability to capitalize on a wide and expanding range of technologies for efficient and effective policing. These digital law enforcement tools permit law enforcement agencies and officers to respond to crime events more efficiently, more deliberately, with improved operational intelligence, and with a proactive emphasis on officer, citizen, and community safety.

The RTCC is focused on monitoring, deterring, and evaluating criminal activity in real-time by using advanced technology in the center. The SLMPD deploys highly visible cameras that are easily detectable in an effort to deter criminal activity.

This state of the art center provides the SLMPD technologically advanced tools to help address crime and to make our community safer for our citizens and visitors. Since its inception, the RTCC has proven itself as a valuable and necessary resource by continually providing information to Officers on the street in a way that is both clear and actionable.

The SLMPD’s Real Time Crime Center was the recipient of the International Association of Law Enforcement Planners (IALEP) 2015 Phil E. Keith Project of the Year Award.

Federating private cameras into the Real Time Crime Center

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Special Orders – Surveillance Technology

The documents listed below reflect the Special Orders currently in effect related to surveillance technology.

The documents contain limited redactions. These redactions are noted in black and were made to denote tactical/law enforcement sensitive details that would pose a risk to department operations and public safety if publicly released. Other procedures can be located by clicking here.

The document listed below is the Special Order currently in effect related to Consent Searches.

Directive 2024-03-19 City of St. Louis Ordinance 71717 (Open Carry of Firearms)

The document listed below is the Directive currently in effect related to Ordinance 71717 and openly carrying firearms.

If you are having difficulties accessing the information in the PDF files available on this webpage, please email [email protected] for an alternative document.

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