A number of items came up on the Syracuse Common Council agenda at a recent meeting. The Syracuse Police Department will be training officers and detectives on how to obtain video footage from corner stores and other businesses. The training was approved by the Syracuse Common Council and will begin in December. Currently, only two people in the department can pull video off of devices that capture footage when there is a crime. That has led to some problems of waiting for the right detective to get to the scene. Syracuse Police First Deputy Chief Joe Cecile gave one example of a homicide in Eastwood a year ago where a store owner’s camera took footage of the suspect. A detective had to be called in to retrieve that footage. “It took him about 35 minutes to get there, we were waiting for him to get there to pull this video off this device so we could get a look at the suspect,” Cecil said. “If we had officers trained we could have pulled it off instantly and got the information out to
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