Tulsa Police Get The Write Stuff
Oklahoma-based Tulsa Police Department officers can now use a new $1.4 million wireless data radio network to write field interviews, incident reports, and accident reports, significantly boosting their efficiency.
Tulsa’s wireless infrastructure allows the Department’s 450 police laptops, docking stations in police vehicles, and vehicular radio modems to communicate, and provides officers with data from local, state, and federal databases.
Officers no longer rely on radio communication to check warrant information, which means potentially dangerous situations are avoided with the officer receiving valuable knowledge.
The online capability replaces the previous time-consuming method of submitting paper documents, explains Department systems development and support manager George Smith.
“Officer efficiency has increased both on the street and in the office, freeing up time to do what they do best–serve and protect our citizens,” he boasts.
Abstracted by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center(NLECTC) from Government Technology (07/03).