FARGO — The Fargo Police Department can use a local bank’s surveillance camera system to watch for crime live in downtown, a partnership that could become more common.

Through a unanimous vote on its Oct. 27 consent agenda, the City Commission gave the police department authority to sign a contract with Bell Bank that lets officers access Bell Bank cameras in the downtown area, including at the Bell Tower, the bank’s 14-story headquarters 520 Main Ave.

“It's definitely something we're trying to move more towards, just to give us a bigger footprint of having public-facing cameras that we could possibly access to help us with investigations and issues that we're dealing with in various parts of the town,” said Criminal Investigations Capt. Matt Christensen. “It’s something we are trying to

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