The £550,000 centre is monitoring CCTV cameras, security radios and emergency telephone lines throughout Calder-dale.
"It will improve our ability to respond to incident, to detect crime and bring about succesful prosecutions," said Cald-erdale divisional commander Chief Supt Ian Levitt.
Managing the centre is ex-crime prevention officer and Queen's Police Medal winner, Peter Woodhouse. "All the equipment we have here is about making Calder-dale safer for the community," he said.
It has been set up by Calderdale Council, the police and other agencies and could eventually be expanded, with links to housing estates, health centres, rail and bus stations, and roadside speed cameras.
The equipment is based at a secret location in Halifax and is monitored by a private security company.
A change in the type of equipment available and need for a closer working relationship between the organisations that use it prompted the move.
For years, the CCTV cameras in Calderdale's main towns have been monitored from a small room at Calderdale College with all the pictures being recorded on to tape. The new digital transmission and recording system allows all the images from 47 cameras to be viewed on a huge bank of monitors, recorded directly onto computers where they are saved for 30 days and then erased.
Improvements to the cameras and transmission systems means that much better quality pictures are available and the views from the moveable cameras can be pre-set.
Advance Security Ltd has been appointed to recruit and train the monitoring staff who can send pictures of incidents directly to the police station at Rich-mond Close, Halifax.
The deputy Tory leader of the council, Stephen Baines, said that for the first time all the different monitoring systems in various area, which had been disjointed, were being interlinked and updated.
"It means we have state of the art equipment in experienced hands which should make people feel much safer when they are out."