Case Study: Hemet Unified School District achieves 38% reduction in after-hours crimes and improved campus safety with Vicon’s Valerus VMS

Hemet Public School District Focuses on Ensuring a Safe Learning Environment with Vicon’s Intuitive VMS Solution

Hemet Unified School District, a public district in Hemet, CA serving about 22,000 students across 28 schools and roughly 750 square miles, faced recurring vandalism, graffiti, bullying and the need for better emergency readiness. District security leadership sought a simple, intuitive, centrally managed video system and chose Vicon’s Valerus VMS to replace their older surveillance platform.

Vicon implemented Valerus district‑wide and expanded cameras from 262 to 1,215, while minimizing bandwidth and providing unified remote monitoring and easy export/search tools. As a result, training demands dropped, investigations sped up (suspects identified in minutes), camera coverage eliminated blind spots, and after‑hours property crimes fell by 38%, demonstrating measurable improvements in safety and operational efficiency under Vicon’s solution.

Hemet Unified School District

Chris Wynn

Director of security