Published: April 21, 2008
American Border Patrol to Demonstrate Internet Camera System
TUCSON, Ariz., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- American Border Patrol, a
non-profit 501 c (3) Arizona Corporation will hold a live demonstration of its
Operation Virtual Vigilance (http://www.virtualvolunteers.net/) Internet
camera system at a press conference inTucson tomorrow, April 22. Attendees
will be given the opportunity to operate the cameras themselves. Both color
and thermal cameras will be used in the demonstration. The cameras are located
on ABP's ranch on the Mexican border inSoutheastern Arizona, a major
smuggling corridor.
Citizens called "virtual volunteers" presently operate the cameras from
states all across the nation, aiding in many apprehensions of illegal aliens.
A leader in the use of technology on the border, ABP pioneered the concept
of Internet-based border surveillance cameras in 2005.
(www.americanpatrol.com/05-FEATURES/050919-BDR-CAM-COMING/050919_Feature.html)
TheState of Texas is now developing a similar system. Together these systems
could provide verification of border control called for by people such as
presidential candidate Senator John McCain.
ABP also pioneered the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones,
on the border. DHS now operates three Predator B UAVs on the border in
Arizona.
ABP will show how a type of "virtual fence" could be developed at a cost
far below that projected by the Department of Homeland Security.
Time: 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 22
Place: Tucson Marriott University Park
800 E Second Street
Tucson, AZ 85719
SOURCE American Border Patrol
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