It’s something we see every day, bad surveillance video. When you can’t make out the person though, it often times doesn’t hold up in court. A local security company says having a security camera is good, but where you put it is key. Nearly every surveillance video is of the top of someone’s head, but most crooks wear hats, you can’t see their face.

SEi Security said having a camera up high is good but only if you have another camera at eye level.

“It takes placing that camera at the right height, in the right field of view to capture what is needed,” Director of Sales, Jason Cloudt said.

Surveillance that’s near the ceiling isn’t a good idea. You can’t make out the crooks faces, that’s why having good surveillance video is key.

“With a lot of crimes that we investigate, there’s not a lot of evidence left in a lot of cases and with that video that we can obtain from surveillance, you can’t put a price on that,” police officer, Aaron Thompson said.

It’s also necessary to have multiple camera and the image quality is important. He said it’s all about having the right camera.

“When we zoom in on an image it becomes blurred because a standard camera has about 440,000 pixels that make up that image. With today’s video, IP video and megapixel cameras, I have millions of pixels and so when I zoom in I’m able to see so much more […]