NYPD Developing App for Officers with Crime Scene Data and Criminal Records
The New York Police Department is in the process of developing a new high-tech department-issued smartphone application for officers to use to access a wide variety of data and information about the people in the buildings they are dispatched to. A preview of the application was revealed on April 9, 2013 but Deputy Chief Ruben Beltran stated that it is still in the works but has so far yielded positive results by the 400 officers who are testing the application. With the application, officers will not be entering buildings blindly. The smartphone application would also give officers access to criminal and vehicle records and ideally to check for outstanding warrants, gun charges, high-risk sex offenders, and previous domestic violence incidents. As funding and approval are still being worked out, the NYPD stated that they will soon present the proposal to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Source: New York Daily News
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Citation: Slattery, D., & Hutchinson, B. (2013). New York Daily News. NYPD developing app for officers with crime scene data and criminal records. Retrieved April 11, 2013, from http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-developing-detailed-app-officers-article-1.1312254
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