ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System Benefits
The ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System (GLS) is our flagship product, providing Mission-Essential Surveillance for law enforcement, homeland security, and military. Its unique capabilities are unrivaled, providing timely alerts to dispatch and command centers and to personnel in field-based support vehicles. In addition, every incident is easily retrieved to aid follow-up investigations, crime analysis, and contribute to prosecution evidence.
Provides Area Protection for Public Safety, Homeland Security, and Military
Where deployed, the ShotSpotter GLS detects more gunfire and other explosive events
than are reported to 9-1-1. Customer agencies report reductions of overall gunfire rates between 60 and 80 percent, reductions of violent crime by 35 percent, and higher confiscations of illegal weapons.
Increases First Responder Effectiveness and Safety.
Because the ShotSpotter GLS alerts enable rapid response to a precise location of gunfire events, responders can arrive in time to provide injured victims with life-saving emergency treatment, prevent an escalation of violence, find and preserve critical evidence, and interview witnesses. Because the GLS provides invaluable situational awareness, the forces deployed are better prepared to address the situation.
Situational Awareness Information Adds to the Common Operating Picture
Every incident captured by the ShotSpotter GLS includes the precise location and direction of travel if moving, audio data that can reveal the weapon caliber, the number of rounds fired, and the number of people involved. With this comprehensive and accurate situational awareness, dispatchers, supervisors, and commanders can more efficiently prioritize and deploy an appropriate force response.
Enhances Investigations and Prosecution Cases
The ShotSpotter system directs first responders to the exact crime scene resulting in the preservation and collection of physical evidence. Increased evidence availability, such as confirming multiple gun crimes committed by the same weapon, are invaluable to investigations and district attorneys building prosecution cases.
Drives Targeted Enforcement with Built-in Crime Analysis Tools
Every incident detected by the system contributes to a database of information that can be searched, sorted, and analyzed. Analytic reports readily reveal patterns, trends, and hot-spots that can drive strategies to suppress violence at known areas and times, as well as to ward off credible threats.
Enables Efficient Utilization of Assets
Armed with an increased awareness and knowledge of what is transpiring within a specific area, responding agencies can pro-actively apply resources when and where they are most needed. In addition, they are also armed with data to justify specific increases in assets and resources.