Cumberland County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Cumberland County.
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
Lower Allen Township Police Department
The Lower Allen Township Police Department uses Motorola body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): PennLiveLower Allen TownshipLower Allen Township Emergancy Medical Services Facebook
The Lower Allen Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
West Shore Regional Police Department
The West Shore Regional Police Department uses smartphone body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): West Shore Regional Police Department Facebook Page
The West Shore Regional Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Willistown Township Police Department
The Willistown Township Police Department received a $23,986 grant in 2021 to purchase body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
Camp Hill Borough Police Department
The Camp Hill Borough Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since at least 2020.
East Pennsboro Township Police Department
The East Pennsboro Police Department has been using body-worn cameras since at least 2019.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Penn Live
The East Pennsboro Township Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Carlisle Police Department
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $43,500 to the Carlisle Police Department in 2015 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program. In 2018, the Carlisle City Council voted to spend $25,980 on Axon body-worn cameras.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Carlisle City WebsiteU.S Department of Justice
The Carlisle Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Cumberland County District Attorney's Office
The Cumberland County District Attorney's Office operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Camp Hill Police Department
The Camp Hill Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Middlesex Township Police Department
The Middlesex Township Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
New Cumberland Borough Police Department
The New Cumberland Borough Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Newville Police Department
The Newville Police Department operates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
North Middleton Township Police Department
The North Middleton Township Police Departmentoperates a camera registry via CRIMEWATCH.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): CRIMEWATCH
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026