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. The library is reviewed and updated monthly; see the changelog.
Virtual Patrol Technologies helps a facility see risk earlier and keep a reviewable record. It is not surveillance. These are the limits VPT holds itself to, written plainly so a sheriff, county attorney or oversight body can check them.
No facial recognition. VPT does not identify people by their faces.
No biometric identification. VPT does not use gait recognition, emotion recognition or voice identification.
No predictive or pre-crime flagging. VPT looks at safety-relevant events, not predictions about people.
VPT does not replace correctional officers. The system surfaces events; people decide and respond.
VPT does not replace required rounds or checks. Those stay with staff under facility policy.
VPT does not make custody, disciplinary, classification or medical decisions. Those stay with the facility.
No automated discipline. Nothing VPT flags results in discipline without people deciding it.
VPT does not diagnose. When it flags possible medical distress, staff respond under facility procedures.
A person reviews every alert. There is no autonomous action.
VPT flags events. It does not decide what they mean.
VPT uses only existing cameras the facility authorizes in writing. It adds no covert cameras.
PREA-protected and private areas, such as toilets, showers and strip-search areas, are excluded by design.
VPT does not sell facility data and does not use it for advertising.
VPT is designed so that Criminal Justice Information is not ingested, stored or transmitted by the VPT system.
How VPT handles data is set out on the security and data handling page.
VPT does not claim to see everything, all the time. Coverage depends on the cameras and areas the facility authorizes.
VPT publishes no accuracy percentages and makes no accuracy promises. That is why a person reviews every alert.
VPT does not claim any certification it does not hold.
No. VPT does not use facial recognition or any biometric identification, including gait, emotion or voice identification.
No. VPT does not make disciplinary decisions and there is no automated discipline. People decide.
No. Required checks and staffing stay with the facility. VPT supports staff and does not replace them.
No. VPT can flag possible medical distress for a trained person to review. Medical decisions stay with health staff under facility procedures.
No. VPT does not sell facility data and does not use it for advertising.
VPT does not publish accuracy percentages. A person reviews every alert before anyone acts on it.
