General operational and educational information for corrections professionals. Not legal, medical, or compliance advice, and not a certification of compliance with any law or standard. Policies and standards vary by agency and jurisdiction; follow your facility's policy and your own legal, medical, and professional advisors.
A Virtual Officer is VPT's AI attention layer running on the cameras a facility already owns. It watches continuously, flags developing risk, and routes it to a real officer to verify and act. It extends staff attention; it does not make custody decisions and it does not replace officers.
An officer cannot watch every camera every second, and attention thins over a long shift and overnight. Recording is not watching: footage no one is looking at changes nothing in the moment an incident starts. A Virtual Officer keeps continuous attention on the feeds you already have, so a developing problem reaches a person sooner.
Watches existing camera feeds continuously for the behaviors and conditions that precede harm. Flags them as they develop. Routes the flag to the right officer or the control room with the location and context. Logs when it was seen, acknowledged, and resolved, so there is a reviewable record afterward.
It does not make decisions, discipline anyone, or act on its own. It does not use facial recognition. It is not surveillance of individuals; it reads behavior and conditions, not identities. Every flag is reviewed by a trained person before any action. The officer stays in command; the tool serves their judgment.
The Virtual Officer is the working edge of VPT's Safety Intelligence layer. It sits on top of your existing cameras with no new hardware and connects to the same proof record that produces your monthly report and Safety Intelligence Score. The point is earlier awareness, faster response, and a defensible record, not more screens for staff to watch.
No. It extends the attention of the officers you have. Every flag goes to a person who verifies it and decides what to do. It is designed to make a good officer more effective, not to reduce staff.
The system keeps continuous attention on the feeds you connect it to, focused on your highest-risk areas. A human is always the one who acts on what it surfaces.
No. It reads behavior and conditions, not identities. There is no facial recognition.
The flag is routed to the right officer or the control room with the location and context, a person verifies it, acts, and the event is logged with timestamps for later review.
In most cases yes. Virtual Officers run on a facility's existing camera feeds; the goal is to get more out of the cameras you already own, not to sell you new ones.
