((PKG))  ROBOT RANGERS   
((VOA Ukrainian)) 
((Banner:  Robocop)) 
((Reporter:  Khrystyna Shevchenko)) 
((Camera:  Vitaliy Chvak))  
((Adapted by:  Zdenko Novacki)) 
((Map:  Huntington Beach, California)) 
((Main characters:  1 male;  1 female))  
((Sub characters:  1 female))  
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((Cosme Lozano, Chief, Huntington Park Police))  
This is an autonomous robot.  It operates essentially on its 
own.  It’s on a program.  It's extremely useful because it frees 
up our officers to concentrate on, you know, other important 
community policing matters.  It is a live monitoring system, so 
we are able to monitor the cameras live at the 
communications center.  These are the four cameras that are 
positioned within the unit and it's always recording.  So, 
everywhere it goes, it's capturing all of that data.  It also has a 
license plate reader feature which operates by this device 
right here.  It's able to read license plates of vehicles in 
parking lots and it actually captures that data.  
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((Cosme Lozano, Chief, Huntington Park Police)) 
It also has a distress button which is located here.  So, 
somebody were to need assistance or they want to contact 
our communication center, they can do it by way of that 
distress button.  And there's people that are monitoring on the 
other end.  So, the system also has the ability for a dispatcher 
or a monitor to get into the software and actually project 
communication through the robot to the person that has 
pressed the distress button.  
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((Brianna, Resident, Huntington Park)) 
If something wrong happens, the police can see it from the 
robot.  And then the police can come and figure out what’s 
happening to us. 
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((Karina Macias, Mayor, Huntington Park)) 
We saw the autonomous robot in one of the conferences and 
we decided it might be something that could work for the 
parks as we've been having some concerns about safety. 
This park is the largest park in the city and it's highly used by 
the community, especially now during the summer.  So, we 
wanted an extra set of eyes that would help the police 
department in order to patrol it 24/7.  
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((Cosme Lozano, Chief, Huntington Park Police))   
It travels the entire park.  It is a programmed path but we're 
able to change the path and adapt it to, maybe, different 
activities that we become aware of.  So, there's a person 
coming.  If it senses it too close, it'll stop for a moment.  
Good morning.   
All of this information is recorded.  It’s downloaded to a hard 
drive.  If something were to happen and we needed to go 
back to look at the video recording, we can always access 
that video also.  
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((Karina Macias, Mayor, Huntington Park)) 
Cost is around $65,000 a year.  We already use different 
funds in order to cover it.  And like I said, it's a year-on-year 
basis.  So, if we decide to renew it, it will come back to the 
council so we can vote on it.  
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