Police surveillance cameras and a rapid-response team, both of which had been criticized by the mayor, have received the governor?s public safety award.

The two cameras on Washington Street and East Bel Air Avenue led to three drug arrests from the first 30 minutes of video, and the rapid-response team gathered intelligence, sped investigations and made arrests in troubled neighborhoods, the Maryland Department of Public Safety said.

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