Reported configuration
- 40 ARSENAL body cameras
- 50-terabyte ARSENAL secure server
- Department-wide deployment intended to equip every officer
- Agency-managed video storage and retrieval workflow
Operational takeaways
1
Pairing cameras with storage planning avoids treating evidence management as an afterthought.
2
Department-wide rollouts benefit from a standardized charging, upload, access, and retention process.
3
An on-premises server can give an agency direct control over capacity and evidence access.
Questions for a similar procurement
Use these questions to turn a public deployment example into requirements for your own agency.
- What retention period, recording resolution, and daily upload assumptions were used to size the server?
- What backup, redundancy, monitoring, and recovery plan protects the evidence repository?
- How are cameras assigned, charged, uploaded, and checked at the beginning and end of each shift?
- What training and acceptance tests must be completed before department-wide use?