GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — License plate readers, drones and state-of-the-art digital camera programs are the crime-fighting instruments all around the North Carolina A&T State University campus.

The police chief launched a real-time intelligence system to higher shield anybody who steps foot on campus.

When college students return in a couple of weeks, they may discover extra cameras. They are linked to a system referred to as FUSUS. NCA&T is among the first universities within the UNC system to get it.

“Why A&T? Because we lead the way,” Chief Jermaine Cherry stated.

When courses begin within the fall, the technical establishment may have a number of the most superior security expertise in place.

“In order for me to ask our officers, all of us, to do our job, I have to be willing to provide them with the best tools that are available,” Cherry stated.

The campus police chief stated a real-time video system is his finest software. Cherry confirmed FOX8 the view he will get from the handfuls of cameras inside every constructing.

“I’m able to go into the FUSUS platform and see every building on campus, every floor on campus, every camera on campus,” he stated.

He can even see energetic calls. When they arrive in, the chief will get an alert and a purple flashing dot on his pc. A yellow dot exhibits which officer is within the space to reply.

“We now have the ability to live stream into the officer’s body camera … While the officer’s responding to a call for service, I have the ability or command has the ability to see in real time what that officer is seeing,” Cherry stated.

Cherry can even faucet into license plate readers and a drone. He needs to make use of this expertise to maintain crime off campus and have the ability to collaborate with different companies. The Greensboro Police Department has the identical system.

“The city is struggling with some of the criminal activity that is happening throughout the city,” Cherry stated.

In April, a freshman on the college, Deja Reaves, was shot and killed close to an off-campus residence advanced.

“I go to bed every night concerned about our students,” Cherry stated.

The chief hopes his efforts to convey the newest expertise to NCA&T will stop one other tragedy and reassure dad and mom, college students and employees the campus is secure.

“We don’t want to lose another student to senseless violence in the city … So we’re working together,” he stated. “We’re locking the arm in arms with one another. We’re throwing ideas on the table, and we do have a plan coming up this next school year.”

Part of that plan is monitoring off-campus housing extra continuously.

Cherry stated different universities in North Carolina are reaching out to him, exploring the thought of including FUSUS to their campuses.

FOX8 requested how a lot it prices. Cherry didn’t have a solution however stated the college funded the improved safety.