The Metropolitan Police Department is planning to link its closed circuit television cameras with its gunshot-location technology to get immediate pictures of an area where shots have been fired, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Friday.

The MPD’s fiscal 2009 budget includes $2.5 million to expand the department’s network of closed-circuit TV cameras, to install additional ShotSpotter gunshot-recognition systems and then to connect the two, Lanier told the D.C. Council’s public safety committee.