ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orlando police showed off their new high-tech crime fighting tool Monday, security cameras installed in high crime areas.

The pastor of a church in the Parramore neighborhood said area crime was out of control. The pastor said the camera has started to reduce crime already.

Late Monday morning, Police Chief Val Demings and Mayor Buddy Dyer unveiled plans to add 60 'intelligent cameras' to other neighborhoods that are even more high-tech than the ones already up around the city. The Iris cameras will go up in Parramore, downtown Orlando and around Lake Eola. One officer will monitor the cameras 24 hours a day.

The cameras will be able to send an alarm to the officer when it notices suspicious activity. For example, if too many people are hanging out on a street corner.

In other cities where the cameras are in place, city leaders tout a decrease in crime. Civil rights groups, though, say it is an invasion of privacy and the cameras will target certain groups. Others worry it will simply move crime to other neighborhoods.

"We don't want to displace crime, we want to eliminate it. Our hope is that with aggressive enforcement and technology that persons will choose not to commit crimes," Demins said.

"We've got developers that don't want to see certain folks in downtown Orlando. If that's how the cameras are going to work, I'm going to be screaming bloody murder. And that's what I'm going to be watching for," said George Crossley, CopWatch.

The cameras will start going up in July. All of them are scheduled to be up by the end of the year and will cost $1.3 million. The city said private companies and local business owners are paying for it.