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New LSU police chief wants more security cameras, license plate readers on campus
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BATON ROUGE - Newly appointed LSU police chief Marshall Walters has big plans to improve campus safety. Crime has been seeping into the LSU perimeter for years.
Sporadic armed robberies occur on the fringes often and LSU PD is currently investigating an incident that happened last week where a group of people inside a car pulled a gun on students near the Student Union.
"When you look at crime in Baton Rouge, that's something we're obviously keeping an eye on. We have a great relationship and are in constant communication with our local, state and federal partners so that we know what's going on in our community," Walters said.
He hopes putting more security cameras and license plate readers around campus could prevent incidents like these.
"We just finished up one phase of our license plate reader program. We have another phase that will hopefully be in place by the end of this fall which will bring us close to 30 license plate readers on campus. That's going to cover pretty much every street into and out of the university," he said.
License plate readers aren't new, they work by automatically running plates to find out if the car was involved in a crime.
"With the network of security cameras that we have on campus and the license plate readers that we have on campus, we hope that that serves as a deterrent to anyone that would try to come make a victim of our community that they know that if they come on campus their license plate will be captured or we'll catch them on one of our security cameras," Walters said.
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