West Des Moines IA PD

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Last Updated: Thu Sep 19 2024
Overview
West Des Moines IA PD uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. West Des Moines IA PD utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, West Des Moines IA PD utilizes real time alerting of hotlist vehicles to capture wanted criminals. In an effort to ensure proper usage and guardrails are in place, they have made the below policies and usage statistics available to the public.
Policies
What's Detected
License Plates, Vehicles
What's Not Detected
Facial recognition, People, Gender, Race
Acceptable Use Policy
Data is used for law enforcement purposes only. Data is owned by West Des Moines IA PD and is never sold to 3rd parties.
Prohibited Uses
Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harrassment or intimidation, usage based solely on a protected class (i.e. race, sex, religion), Personal use.
Access Policy
All system access requires a valid reason and is stored indefinitely.
Hotlist Policy
Hotlist hits are required to be human verified prior to action.
Usage
Data retention (in days)
30 days
Number of owned cameras
57
External organizations with access
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Hotlists Alerted On
NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
472,247
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
4,347
Searches in the last 30 days
419
Public Search Audit
Additional Info
Recent Success Story - if you want to post a success story we would put it here!