A mid‑size Georgia city turns rapid growth into a safety advantage with a custom‑designed, data‑driven command hub that Chief Wayne Fisher calls a “force multiplier.”
At a Glance
- Agency: Warner Robins Police Department
- Location: Law Enforcement Center, Warner Robins, GA
- Operational since: June 2025
- Population served: 80,000+ residents
- Design & build partner: Fountainhead Control Rooms
- Funding: Seized criminal assets (not SPLOST, ARPA, or General Fund)
The Challenge: Serving a Growing City
Warner Robins has experienced rapid growth over recent decades, reaching more than 80,000 residents by 2025. The police department needed a way to support officers with better information while managing staffing constraints and increasing service demands. Leadership set a strategic goal to use technology as a force multiplier to improve response times, prevent crime, and support data‑driven policing for a “smarter, safer” city.
The Solution: A Centralized Real Time Crime Center
To meet this goal, the Warner Robins Police Department launched a Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) at the Law Enforcement Center. Designed by Fountainhead Control Rooms, the RTCC serves as a centralized hub to monitor, analyze, and respond to crime in real time. The room brings together live, integrated information from more than 300 Flock cameras, traffic cameras, participating businesses, drone feeds, and other sources to help officers respond more quickly, reduce traffic incidents, assist with missing persons cases, and investigate crime as it unfolds.
“This is more than a room with monitors—it’s a shift in how we approach crime prevention and emergency response,” said Chief Wayne Fisher. “The Real Time Crime Center allows us to be more proactive, more connected, and more efficient in serving the citizens of Warner Robins.”
Core Technology and Analytics
The Warner Robins RTCC integrates multiple systems into a single operating environment, including live traffic and city camera networks, license plate recognition systems, public safety databases, and unified communications.
A predictive “digital twin” model, developed with Georgia Tech prior to the center’s opening, uses historical crime data to recommend weekly deployment of 10 mobile LPR units to areas with the highest anticipated crime, enabling proactive patrol. The RTCC also supports social media monitoring and crime databases to provide investigative leads and situational awareness.
Facility & Room Design
The RTCC is a custom‑built control room designed and outfitted by Fountainhead Control Rooms. It features fully customized ELITEAIR/ELITE consoles, technical furniture, and a layout optimized for operator comfort, 24/7 operations, and clear sightlines to shared displays for coordinated response.
Through a turnkey design‑build approach, Fountainhead partners with agencies from early planning through final delivery to create mission‑critical environments that prioritize operator performance, technology integration, and long‑term adaptability.
Fountainhead actively designs and builds next‑generation Real Time Crime Centers and PSAP facilities across the Southeast, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Funding, Governance, and Community Trust
The Warner Robins RTCC was funded with seized assets from prior investigations, rather than SPLOST, ARPA, or the city’s General Fund, minimizing direct taxpayer impact. The department emphasizes policies, procedures, and transparency to address community concerns around camera placement, data use, and oversight, including town halls and ongoing public communication.
Local leadership reports using the model and RTCC tools as a force multiplier to offset staffing challenges and improve officer safety, and notes that community feedback has remained broadly supportive when paired with clear guardrails and communication.
Documented RTCC Success
Within two months of operations, the RTCC assisted U.S. Marshals in capturing a kidnapping fugitive and helped police track down perpetrators in hit‑and‑run crashes. These outcomes reinforce the RTCC’s role in supporting frontline officers, improving investigations, and helping Warner Robins deliver on its vision of a smarter, safer city.
Why It Matters
Warner Robins proves that mid-size cities don’t have to wait for a massive budget or a major metro’s resources to build serious crime-fighting infrastructure. With the right design partner, integrated data, and a proactive deployment strategy, the WRPD created a safer, more responsive city for 80,000+ residents – funded entirely outside the General Fund.
For public safety leaders facing the same pressures – growing populations, staffing constraints, rising service demands – the Warner Robins model is a replicable blueprint. The technology exists. The funding paths exist. What it takes is a partner who can bring it all together.
“The Real Time Crime Center allows us to be more proactive, more connected, and more efficient in serving the citizens of Warner Robins.” – Chief Wayne Fisher, WRPD
About Fountainhead Control Rooms
Fountainhead designs and builds turnkey command and control environments for mission-critical operations worldwide – public safety, utilities, transportation, military, and emergency operations. Every space is custom, ergonomic, and built to ISO 11064 standards.
For Warner Robins, that meant partnering with the WRPD from early planning through final delivery to create a Real-Time Crime Center built around operator performance, technology integration, and long-term adaptability. It’s the same approach Fountainhead brings to every project across the Southeast and beyond.
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