New York City moved a step closer Friday to employing an army of “RoboCops” to patrol its subways alongside flesh and blood police officers.
earlier this year — will patrol the mezzanine of the Times Square 42 Street subway station. The large-wheeled device, equipped with cameras on all sides, will be tested in the central transit hub over the next two months between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m., according to City Hall and the NYPD.
The K5 robot will patrol the Times Square 42nd Street subway station for the next two months under an NYPD pilot program.The machine also sports a call button that will connect anyone who pushes it to a live person who can answer questions or respond to incident reports. After the pilot ends, and depending on what it reveals, Adams said the K5 could become a far more common sight in the subways.
Mayor Eric Adams showing the difficulty of pushing over the K5 robot the NYPD will be piloting in the 42nd Street Times Square station.The city, of course, will still have to pay for cops assigned to patrol the station alongside the K5 over the next two months. But the mayor emphasized that police officers will only accompany the robot during the pilot program.
Kemper insisted the video K5 records will be subject to the same rules as any other footage recorded by camera systems controlled by the city. He also noted K5 will act as a visual deterrent to anyone looking to break the law in the subway system.
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