5pm UK Arrest on Video 03.30.2021

CHELSEA SMITH SHOWS US A RECENT EXAMPLE OF THAT LAST WEEK WHEN POLICE ARRESTED A MAN THEY SAY HAD BOMBS INSIDE HIS CAR OUTSIDE U-K HOSPITAL.

Time to look back and help solve crimes... but they're also increasingly being used to help prevent crimes.

Abc 36's chelsea smith shows us a recent example of that last week when police arrested a man they say had bombs inside his car outside u-k hospital.

### university of kentucky chief of police joe monroe says it was the real time access to security cameras that helped bring... bryan carroll... into custody.

He's the man officers say had guns and explosives in his car right outside u-k hospital.

"we had less than 15 minutes to plan and to get this all done."

The u-k police operation center jumped into action after versailles police called to say carroll was armed and dangerous...and visiting the hospital.

"they were, very quickly, able to pull those cameras up on the large screen for us and we can monitor."

And this video shows how the operation center was following and panning the cameras "in real time we were able to see him exiting the building and help direct our officers to respond."

And we can see on video officers arresting carroll "as our officers are pulling up you see mr. carroll kind of stop and try to process what's getting ready to happen.

The officers bail out of their cars and that's when they were able to take him into custody."

Monroe says there are more than 3,000 cameras on campus "for football games, for traffic management, for going back and identifying a crime that just occurred, all of those are an important part of using this technology as a tool in our tool belt."

He says the goal is continuing to improve the cameras as technology evolves...and adding more.

"it's a requirement that for any new building, that's built on campus, or a building being renovated that it has to have cameras and access control put into it."

In lexington... chelsea smith abc 36 news.

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