Smile! Web site videos help catch criminals in Edmond

EDMOND — For two years Paul Conrady has been searching for a way to help police solve neighborhood crimes.

His innovation is crimeseen.com, and it has already been successful in catching a culprit on surveillance video from a business’ security camera.

Conrady, the owner of Edmond Security, formed crimeseen.com so business and home owners with security cameras could post pictures or videos of perpetrators in the act.

"Police departments have very limited resources to chase after property crime,” he said. "We need to catch them twice as fast because if we do, we can eliminate half the crime.”

Already, the Edmond Police Department is a member of crimeseen.com.

"We’re very supportive of this. Any aid we can get to keep our neighborhoods safer and try to keep the criminals off the streets is helpful,” Edmond police spokeswoman Glynda Chu said.

Conrady said anyone can sign up to receive free e-mail alerts of crimes committed within a specified distance from their home or business.

A link to a map on the Web site marks where the crime occurred and a list of surveillance cameras in the area.

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