Baltimore City beat cops are testing out a new mobile policing device that eliminates the need to call in to the station or use the in-vehicle laptop system to gain valuable and time sensitive information.
Here's an excerpt:
"PocketCop, as you might expect, is a mobile policing system based on the BlackBerry platform. PocketCop is provided by
InterAct. The system essentially puts all policing information at the fingertips of officers on the beat. Before PocketCop, officers had to request information either by calling and communicating with Dispatch (a time consuming approach) or by using the in-vehicle laptop system (useful, but prevents officers from getting out on the streets)."
Read the entire article
here.
Watch Gayle Guildford, director of MIS, Baltimore City Police Department, talk about the device.
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