Thread: Imperial Beach Pier Equipped With Border Patrol Camera CA.

IB Pier Now Equipped With Border Patrol Camera

A high-powered border patrol camera that was installed in late March and aimed to sea, has apparently aided in the capture of maritime smugglers.

By Louis Bohan 3:08pm

Sometime in late March, the U.S. Border Patrol installed a high-powered video surveillance camera on the roof of The Tin Fish restaurant at the end of the IB Pier.

According to Michael No, the owner of The Tin Fish, who rents the end of the pier from the S.D. Coastal Commission, said, "They're looking for drug dealers in boats," and that the camera had recently allowed authorities to intervene in a smuggling attempt.

"I heard that there is a monitor on the Navy base," said No, who added that the camera's images are relayed to the Naval Outlying Field, south of IB, for analysis.

The Navy could not be contacted for comment.

Public affairs spokesperson for the Border Patrol's San Diego Sector, Rodolfo Zuniga, said, "we haven't received any official statement in our office about the...camera yet."
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http://imperialbeach.patch.com/articles ... rol-camera

Imperial Beach is one of the cites south of downtown San Diego, north of the border.
Also, Coronado, National City, Chula Vista and San Ysidro.

I emailed this article to the San Diego Union Tribune to see if they would cover it in a day or 2.

Are there any buoys off the IB area? We have then up here off the mouth of the Columbia...some of them go out pretty far. That would be a good place to mount cameras too.

Good news especially with the recent escalation of boats we hear of from Mexico landing on our beaches.

Originally Posted by jean

Good news especially with the recent escalation of boats we hear of from Mexico landing on our beaches.

There are other piers up the coast that could have cameras, P.B. pier, Oceanside.

Cold War era we had a ring of detection units ont he sea floor tthat could read and detect prop noise many many miles away. We need to string those out along the coast and out to sea again and they can not only detect a whale fart out 200 miles but a small inflatable 200 yards off the beach as well. We can have boats and aircraft on standby to respond to any boat activity that is detected. Use drones if needed, cheap, can be armed, and very accurate.