USA - Crime - New York Police Department's Security Coordination Center

A rare look inside the New York Police Department's lower Manhattan security center, where cops monitor surveillance cameras, environmental sensors and license plate readers around the clock. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced that subway cameras are also being monitored in the center -- officially called The Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center. Modeled after London's "Ring of Steel," the NYPD opened its coordination center in 2008. Today cops monitorfeeds from over 1159 CCTV cameras with the number increasing to 3,000 as the program expands. (Photo by Timothy Fadek/Corbis via Getty Images)