But, as he gave reporters a look inside the operations at the transit system鈥檚 Integrated Command and Communications Center in Alexandria, Virginia, he pointed to a bank of massive screens lining the walls of the facility.
鈥淲hen you鈥檙e in the field, you can kind of see what you can see and what you hear on the radio,鈥� he said.
鈥淲e鈥檙e omnipresent. We鈥檙e everywhere. And that鈥檚 kind of the message we want to deliver to the community, which is: If you are on this system, we care about your safety. And if you are trying to use this system and you are doing something wrong, you will be seen and you are going to get caught,鈥� Clarke added.
To drive home his point, Clarke pointed to Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Anzallo and Deputy Chief Maurice McKinney and said, 鈥淭hese people behind us are going to catch you because we can see what you are doing.鈥�
Clarke said there are 30,000 cameras across the system in stations, on buses and on trains. He pointed out that Metro鈥檚 crime stats are low, with the system on pace to show a record low.
鈥淎 big component of that is our great transit police department, but also our video operations,鈥� Clarke said.
There have been system upgrades added to Metro since last year鈥檚 Fourth of July celebration, when Clarke said there were about 465,000 riders on Metro on the holiday.
鈥淭here鈥檚 no threat to the Washington metropolitan area. However, with events going on in the world, we do have to be vigilant,鈥� Anzallo told 蜜桃视频app.
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