ORLANDO, Fla. – New problems are hitting Orlando's security cameras that are placed throughout the city, according to new details obtained by Local 6.
The City of Orlando now says 43 cameras -- nearly a third of the city's IRIS cameras -- are not in working order.
Police Chief John Mina blames construction on new apartments happening near downtown.
He told Local 6 crews are cutting video lines, not realizing it.
"It can be frustrating, sure, especially if you know that a crime is been committed, and it could've been captured on camera," he said. "It's definitely frustrating."
An IRIS camera that was not in working order failed to to capture a shooting outside the Vixen Nightclub in downtown Orlando last August.
"We are working on putting a mechanism in place so that when one of those lines is cut, the police department is notified immediately," he said.
"Yes they do concern me, but at the same time, we've got new cameras where we've never had them before," said Orlando City Commissioner Robert Stuart.
Stuart told Local 6 the cameras with purchased with federal grant money, and now, grant money to keep "the cameras up-and-running is hard to come by.
"It is a part of the tool that makes it safer, but it is not the tool that makes the safest. That tool is our community. That tool is our next-door neighbors," Stuart said.
He says the city needs to get rid of the IRIS cameras they currently use with copper wiring, improve the city's fiber optic lines and also upgrade the city's wireless internet connections that these cameras use.
To do that, however, is going to cost money that the city is actively trying to find grants to help pay with.