Lansing officers are armed with state of the art technology to target troublemakers.

"We're always looking for ways to free up patrol time for our officers, we decided that we were going to take an aggressive approach and get the equipment out there to our officers so they can be more effective and efficient," said Lansing Police Chief Mark Alley.

All 33 cars in the fleet are the same vehicles, but will have new equipment, like laptops with high speed broadband 3G technology.

"This does give the officer the ability to control the camera," said Lansing Police technician Jeff Kludy.

Kludy showed us how officers can now see live video from their laptops of the city's public surveillance cameras throughout Lansing.

"I can now be anywhere in the city, I can be parked at any location in the city and be able to pull these up," Kludy said.

Two digital mobile video cameras in each of the new patrol cars will also allow officers to clearly see what's in front and behind their vehicle, the cars also have an e-ticket system -- all officers have to do is swipe a driver's license.

"And that information automatically populates into the ticket, so they don't have to manually type all that information in or hand write it on a ticket," Kludy said

Officers then get a copy from a printer inside the patrol car, Police Chief Mark Alley say it means less paperwork and more police work.

"Having a ticket be able to be printed out, not only is it going to be faster but a much higher quality of service," Alley said.

Advanced technology keeping one step ahead of crime.