Ridgeland police installing downtown security camera system

Ridgeland police plan to install security cameras around town by the end of the year, according to a report from Savannah television station WTOC.

Police will install more than a dozen cameras to monitor well-traveled areas like the park and downtown businesses in the hopes of reducing a recent spike in vandalism and burglaries at businesses, the WTOC report said.

The cameras can track motion in the middle of the night. Police out on patrol will have a monitor of the camera's live feed from the department office, and officers will also be able to pull up surveillance video on their phones and tablets, the WTOC report said.

This story was originally published December 1, 2015 at 9:16 AM with the headline "Ridgeland police installing downtown security camera system."