security and surveillance cameras, both in business districts and residential areas, is at the heart of an effort being spearheaded by Niagara County District Attorney Caroline Wojtaszek.

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Debuted in August as Operation SafeCam, Wojtaszek admits the rollout has been a bit slow.

“We had a flood of calls when we first announced,” the district attorney said. “But now it’s died down a little.”

The concept of Operation SafeCam is to get residents and businesses, with video cameras on their property, to share their video streams with the intelligence analysts at the Niagara Intelligence and Crime Analysis Center (NICAC). The super high-tech facility is located at Falls police headquarters.

Oversized video screens cover one wall of the facility and currently provide streaming video from cameras owned by the city and the Falls Schoolconsumed and a life-span of a power source battery built in the transmitter resultingly becomes short. Furthermore, the transmitter requires the modulating circuit for modulating the carrier; and at the same time a configuration of the circuit becomes intricate, which is the very obstacle both against miniaturization of the transmitter and against reduction in weight thereof. It is uncertain to know when the carrier is transmitted from the transmitter; and the receiver which is on the stand-by remains in the operation-state for a long period of time, thereby cosuming a great deal of electric power of the car battery for supplying the operation voltage to the receiver.