PolicePro Wireless - Live Data Access in the patrol car
Every police chief's dream is the elusive concept of the cop in the patrol car, able to write reports and interact with the department database from the field. While there is no shortage of laptop computers in cars these days, there aren't many places where this actually happens. In most instances, the reality of the install involves writing a report in Word on the laptop and sending it to the station over the air or, more frequently, transferring it on a disc or CD at the end of the day. As far as actually making that report a part of the incident management system in real time, who can actually do that?
We can. After months of planning, design, implementation, frustration, doing it all over again and then doing it some more, we can announce that PolicePro now supports active, real time data exchange between the server in the police station and the cops in the cars. This is not "burst" technology where an officer types a name to look for, then waits several minutes for the system to communicate, then sends back a notation - perhaps - that yeah, we've heard of this guy. PolicePro now works in the car exactly like it has worked in the station for the past seven years. You want to check the dispatch ticket you're going on? Hit the Hot List and find your call. Need to add a stereo and some CDs to the Stolen Property list on this call? Fine, go ahead; it becomes part of the active record as soon as you're done typing. Check an arrest card or arrest photo? No problem! Click Arrest Cards and Find, enter the name and the result is right there, along with all the usual PolicePro functions that tie that arrest card to all criminal complaints, statements, evidence and reports on the incident you've hit on.
Got a four page assault report to do? Find a quiet parking lot, enter the case number and click the Report tab. A new report is created and the main fields populated for you, ready for you to type it all in. If you have to go on a call, if the signal drops out, the car stalls or the shift ends, no problem... the report will be waiting for you when you come back to it.
40 year old guy pushing a girl's bicycle up the street at two in the morning. Cop goes to a PolicePro case card or Dispatch Ticket, clicks the Find button and types a short string into the Stolen field: Huffy mountain bike. In an instant, every Huffy mountain bike reported missing is there to review, all appearing in the case window they're associated with. If it was stolen last week or last month, you've just identified it and located the contact information for the owner, along with all the circumstances of the theft, and you haven't bothered the dispatcher beyond telling him or her that you're out with this guy.
This is real world, big time cop stuff. Only people who have spent twenty some odd years in various police cars can come up with this kind of software, and make it work this well. With wireless enabled, the cops in the car have the same kind of access they've had up till now in the police station; and the people inside continue to have that same access as well. We've chased this goal for several years now, and have turned down substantial money offers when we felt that we couldn't promise the result yet. Now we can, and your cops and department can benefit from it.
PolicePro Wireless utilizes Citrix Metaframe technology and wireless cellular access to interface with the system back in the station. Because the interface from the remote computer to the station is Citrix, no police information resides on the remote/laptop itself. All data is SSL 128 bit encrypted, both ways, so your information is secure.