The surveillance room can be unmanned for up to an hour during each eight-hour shift to allow for breaks, according to Gaming Control Board regulations. The Gaming Control Board demands that surveillance rooms be manned by people familiar with the equipment and gaming rules but does not require that more than one person be present. Las Vegas casinos might be heavily regulated when it comes to gaming, but there are few hard numbers they must meet in terms of surveillance. The goal of the casino’s surveillance room is to monitor gaming activity and detect potential fraud.īreaks for food or restroom runs and incoming calls from supervisors or colleagues on the floor mean there are even fewer eyes on all those monitors. Though the city’s casinos are wired with hundreds or thousands of cameras, there are probably at best five people working a shift in the surveillance room of a large-scale property. Las Vegas might be the most surveilled city on Earth - but chances are no one is actually watching you on the other end of the video camera. Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday, June 30, 2014. A surveillance person who could not be identified operates joystick to monitor table games on video screens in the surveillance monitor room at Aria Hotel & Casino, 3730 S.
