City of Springfield

Hampden County · Massachusetts

6 Deployments on record
1 Agencies
5 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · 2 Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · none on record Gunshot detection · 1 Body-worn & dashcam · 1 Doorbell & camera registry · 1 Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

Springfield Police Department

Springfield · 6 deployments · on UnGovr: City of Springfield

ALPR Vendor: ELSAG

The Springfield Police Department acquired automated license plate readers as early as 2009 and received a grant for more systems in 2010.

Body-worn & dashcam

The Springfield Police Department received a $1.1-million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2019 to equip 500 police officers with body-worn cameras.

Doorbell & camera registry Vendor: Motorola Solutions

The Springfield Police Department maintains a voluntary registry of private and personal surveillance cameras through Motorola Solutions' CityProtect platform.

Fixed cameras & RTCC Vendor: BriefCam

The Springfield Police Department purchased BriefCam video analytics software in 2018 as part of $1 million public safety upgrade.

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The Springfield Real Time Crime Analysis and Intelligence Center opened in 2018. Located on the second floor of the Springfield Police Department headquarters, the center receives live feeds from cameras owned by the city as well as some privatelly owned cameras. Staff access gunshot detection software and assorted police databases.

Gunshot detection Vendor: ShotSpotter

The Springfield Police Department upgraded its ShotSpotter gunshot detection system in 2013.

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026