Okay, quite a day today.
The cop, regular not the investigators, contacted me today regarding a theft from a public health facility at the other end of my block. He told me "sometime between Friday night and Monday early AM, probably at night but not 100% sure, two individuals, one tall and the other shorter". They stole a computer, wired phone, toolbox and a bunch of random stuff (light bulbs, etc).
Jesus. Not too much to go on but I logged into the NVR and off I went.
Started reviewing the days between 10pm and 6am which is when my tripwires activate and I can easily (relatively speaking since I'm using a Dahua NVR) find activity. Most of my cameras don't distinguish between people, vehicles, animals and blowing trash so this took a bit of work.
Finally got a hit at 1:30am Monday, the last few hours I had to review. An individual walked by carrying a sack of something over his shoulder. Then at 3:07am, THE SAME GUY WALKS BY! This time, he's stuffing a cardboard box into a backpack. He's dressed exactly the same. Both times he walks from the direction of the robbery.
I notify the cop and he comes by. I copy the videos to his phone and he's happier than a pig in shit. They had almost nothing to go on before the videos.
There's also possibly a woman involved. She paces nervously back and forth and goes in and out of the "problem house" on the block. At 1:28am, she walks to the intersection where the suspect would appear and then back to in front of the problem house. She waits on the opposite side of the street from my place where the guy walks. When he does appear, she crosses the road and starts to walk with him.
Bingo.
Oh, and the investigators that came by, the ones that started this thread, to size up the cameras as they busted a chop shop where a bunch of stolen electric scooters were found. And two of them found were ones that were stolen from close to my place. One was a daylight assault and robbery of the scooter and we caught the suspects on camera as they drove by my place. The other was stolen at night and we're sure it was in the back of a truck that went by my place at 2:30am the next day.
So it does pay to be vigilant and build a decent system. Wife is 200% sold now (she was only 150% sold before this) and the cops should be able to find the suspect from the public health robbery based on the footage we were able to supply.
Looking forward to the next adventure!