Security camera now live at Heberlig Palmer tot lot
The new security camera at the Heberlig-Palmer tot lot is the first of many additions for an improved, safer park.
CARLISLE — The Heberlig Palmer Park tot lot just got safer.
A newly installed security camera went live Friday, June 26, and will stream live video to a network accessible to borough officials and the Carlisle Police Department.
As part of an overhaul of the park — which has seen spells of vandalism, loitering and drug dealing throughout the years — the Carlisle Westside Neighbors have been raising funds in an effort to make HP safer and more attractive.
Along with the camera, lights have also been added to the park.
“The issues have been sometimes people loitering in the pavilion, just at night; it’s real dark and people can hide in the shadows,” said Brenda Landis of the Westside Neighbors. “Between the two elements, it can very quickly improve the safety of the space.”
Most of the construction will happen this fall and into the spring, but this was the first large (expensive) tangible addition. Some of the other future additions will be a walking path, community gardens where residents can adopt a small plot of land, an outdoor café, new cement grills, and a “natural” play area, with trees and a wooden climbing apparatus in place of the traditional jungle gym.
The neighborhood group hopes that the additions will help to ensure the park stays cleaner, and most importantly, safer.
Carlisle Police Chief Stephen Margeson said the camera is streaming live and also stores video for later use if officers or borough officials, who all have access to the feed, can look back on it.
“If anyone reported something we could go back and retrieve it,” Margeson said. “I believe it also, like our other cameras, has the tilt and zoom capability so we can look in different directions.”
However, Margeson noted that officers aren’t encouraged to constantly look in on the camera while on patrol, saying that he doesn’t want officers to do “anything that is another distraction to driving.”
“We don’t always want a patrol officer out there — even if they parked their car — to be focused in on their keyboard, but the capability is there,” he said. “So there are times when it would be appropriate and reasonable for them to stop and observe that (the camera).”
The camera makes HP the second borough park to have installed the visual security measure, after Borough Council voted to unanimously install cameras at Memorial Park in 2010.
“All security cameras are monitored through the Carlisle Police Department,” said Andrea Crouse, director of parks and recreation for the borough. “The cameras in the parks serve as an extra set of eyes and can be very helpful to police. Security cameras can be a deterrent to vandalism or inappropriate behavior. Through the renovation efforts with the West Side Neighbors Association, it was identified that a security camera at Heberlig Palmer Park would be beneficial.”
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The new security camera at the Heberlig-Palmer tot lot is the first of many additions for an improved, safer park.
CARLISLE — The Heberlig Palmer Park tot lot just got safer.
A newly installed security camera went live Friday, June 26, and will stream live video to a network accessible to borough officials and the Carlisle Police Department.
As part of an overhaul of the park — which has seen spells of vandalism, loitering and drug dealing throughout the years — the Carlisle Westside Neighbors have been raising funds in an effort to make HP safer and more attractive.
Along with the camera, lights have also been added to the park.
“The issues have been sometimes people loitering in the pavilion, just at night; it’s real dark and people can hide in the shadows,” said Brenda Landis of the Westside Neighbors. “Between the two elements, it can very quickly improve the safety of the space.”
Most of the construction will happen this fall and into the spring, but this was the first large (expensive) tangible addition. Some of the other future additions will be a walking path, community gardens where residents can adopt a small plot of land, an outdoor café, new cement grills, and a “natural” play area, with trees and a wooden climbing apparatus in place of the traditional jungle gym.
The neighborhood group hopes that the additions will help to ensure the park stays cleaner, and most importantly, safer.
Carlisle Police Chief Stephen Margeson said the camera is streaming live and also stores video for later use if officers or borough officials, who all have access to the feed, can look back on it.
“If anyone reported something we could go back and retrieve it,” Margeson said. “I believe it also, like our other cameras, has the tilt and zoom capability so we can look in different directions.”
However, Margeson noted that officers aren’t encouraged to constantly look in on the camera while on patrol, saying that he doesn’t want officers to do “anything that is another distraction to driving.”
“We don’t always want a patrol officer out there — even if they parked their car — to be focused in on their keyboard, but the capability is there,” he said. “So there are times when it would be appropriate and reasonable for them to stop and observe that (the camera).”
The camera makes HP the second borough park to have installed the visual security measure, after Borough Council voted to unanimously install cameras at Memorial Park in 2010.
“All security cameras are monitored through the Carlisle Police Department,” said Andrea Crouse, director of parks and recreation for the borough. “The cameras in the parks serve as an extra set of eyes and can be very helpful to police. Security cameras can be a deterrent to vandalism or inappropriate behavior. Through the renovation efforts with the West Side Neighbors Association, it was identified that a security camera at Heberlig Palmer Park would be beneficial.”
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