INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers visibly patrol the streets every day. Detectives are always working cases. Behind the scenes, there are also civilian analysts working in real time to help keep them and the city safe.

FOX59/CBS4 cameras were the first inside IMPD's Real Time Crime Center since its renovation.

"A couple of months ago, I came into work. I was the first one in that morning," IMPD civilian analyst Whitley Ames said. "We had a domestic with a weapon that turned into a non-custodial kidnapping."

While officers on scene quickly worked to figure out where the suspect took off to that day, Ames recalls lending a hand from her desk, miles across the city, using watchtower cameras to spot his license plate in a matter of minutes.

"We were able t

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