The City of Brampton is enhancing public safety by installing 360-degree cameras and licence plate recognition technology at 50 traffic intersections. This innovative initiative will provide Peel Regional Police and other law enforcement agencies with critical data to investigate crimes and improve community safety.

Real-time video footage from the new cameras will be captured into a software platform which police can then access to get incident dates and times, licence plate numbers, and vehicle information like the make, model, and colour.

Brampton is the first municipality in Canada to install this type of camera and software system, according to Brown, and the city is spending $11.4 million on the initiative.

“We have a goal,” Brown said at a press conference Friday. “We want to make Brampton the worst place in the country to commit a crime. We want it to be known that if you commit a crime in Brampton, you’re going to be caught and prosecuted.”