Method and device for tagging incident data captured by non-public-safety agency controlled cameras

A method of tagging incident data captured by non-public-safety agency controlled cameras, comprising:

• detecting, at an electronic computing device, an occurrence of a public-safety incident;
• obtaining, at the electronic computing device, an incident identifier associated with the public-safety incident;
• determining, at the electronic computing device, whether one or more public-safety agency controlled cameras associated with a public-safety agency are available or capable of capturing, storing, or tagging incident data corresponding to the public-safety incident;
• determining, at the electronic computing device, that at least one non-public-safety agency controlled camera is available for capturing incident data corresponding to the public-safety incident only when the one or more public-safety agency controlled cameras associated with the public-safety agency are not available or capable of capturing, storing, or tagging incident data corresponding to the public-safety incident,;
• identifying, at the electronic computing device, a public-safety agency controlled internet-of-things (IoT) infrastructure associated with the public-safety agency that is deployed at a location of the public-safety incident;
• emitting, at the public-safety agency controlled IoT infrastructure, a signal including one of an audible signal, visible signal, or a combination of audible and visible signals to enable the at least one non-public-safety agency controlled camera to tag incident data captured by the at least one non-public-safety agency controlled camera using the emitted signal;
• generating, at the electronic computing device, a unique tag representing the emitted signal;
• linking, at the electronic computing device, the unique tag representing the emitted signal to the incident identifier associated with the public-safety incident, and responsively store information linking the unique tag to the incident identifier;
• and
• searching, at the electronic computing device, the incident data captured by the at least one non-public-safety agency controlled camera using the unique tag representing the emitted signal.