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Case Study

Los Angeles Police Department relies on  

NEC displays in emergency operations 

Quick Facts

Facility:

 Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center,

 

 LAPD RACR Division

Location:

 

Los Angeles, California

Challenge:

 Constructing a brand new facility that

 

     encourages productivity with high-tech 

 

     digital screens for information display

Solution:

 46” NEC X461UN, 46” P461, 

 

  40” MultiSync® LCD4020-AVT

Date:

 

September 2009

When the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Real-Time 
Analysis and Critical Response (RACR) division needed a display 
solution in its control center, it looked to Spectrum Video, Inc. 
to design workstations and a video wall that would allow its 
staff to work swiftly and efficiently, without worrying about the 
dependability of its technology. The workstations allow RACR 
staff to work in teams and enable collaboration, while area 
monitors mounted from the ceiling helps with decision-making 
in emergency situations. The ultra-narrow bezel video wall is 
viewable from virtually anywhere within the brand new facility.

The RACR division of the 
LAPD is a 24/7 fusion and 
information processing 
center where resources, 
situation status of the city 
and developing tactical 
incidents are tracked. This 
department also includes 
daily detective support to 
Los Angeles and complete 
analysis on emerging crime 
patterns. 

AV Design Consultant 
Spectrum Video is based 
in California and provides 
complete, custom solutions 
for businesses looking 
to communicate more 

effectively. Spectrum offers a variety of services, including audio 
visual design, engineering, control system user interface and project 
oversight, living up to its motto of “clarity without complexity.”

The Challenge

Originally, the LAPD resided in the basement of City Hall. 
Cramped and pressed for space, the City worked to build a brand 
new facility for multiple stakeholders, including the Emergency 
Management Department (EMD), LAPD RACR and the Los 
Angeles Fire Department’s Main Dispatch and Department 
Operations Center. Primary design plans for RACR featured a 
rear-projection system with mirrors and projection screen that 
showed emergency situation status in an area where officers 
developed a course of action. Staff members were not looking 
forward to constantly replacing projector lamps, and realized 
bringing in a new flat-panel system would provide real estate 
behind the displays, which could be used for equipment racks full 
of AV-related gear.

The City had previous experience acquiring AV design from 
Spectrum with other projects, so the choice to hire their services for 
the new installation was easy. Bringing in Spectrum as architect 
of the Audio Visual systems in the new facility allowed the LAPD 

to verbalize its wants 
and needs and let this 
trusted consultant take 
care of the vital features 
and specifications of the 
solution.

In designing the system, 
Spectrum wanted to 
dramatically improve the 
RACR facility by creating 
a seamless video wall that 
would support a variety 
of content and have 
the ability to alternate 
each screen’s content. 

Spectrum determined 
that the project would 
require displays with high 

For its RACR facility, the LAPD chose NEC’s 46” X461UN to outfit a video wall that 

displays critical news and information from off-air and closed-circuit sources.   

© 2010 Ron Baker Photography

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