I am surprised that in training in some volunteer work with police  
they say are actually getting quite good at *using* their systems.  
These might be like C3I military systems of crime control.

A few years ago the officers did not effectively use their systems at  
full capacity.

In Ottawa, Canada each car has a laptop computer. Our present day  
officers have typically one university degree studied as well. They  
are becoming much more computer literate officers.

More interesting is the discretion our Supreme court allows for  
police searching private records like utility bills for over  
consumption of electricity of a drug business. And now they are  
probably seraching our internet use as well. In fact, officers log on  
to well know crime hangouts on the net.

Also interesting is GIS response to disasters. Here I would hope to  
learn more R and SAS connected to GIS's like ArcView and GRASS. Can  
we support the statistics involved in geographical of spatial  
decisions such as routing emergency vehicles?

As someone who started work some thirty years ago doing data entry of  
journal articles I would say we have come quite far in terms of  
records and digitisations.

Now the process with scanner is also speeding along the digitisation  
of records.


yes backed up but not always paper backups.




On 4-Aug-06, at 10:27 AM, Paul Spicker wrote:

> [edit]

> Increasing the pressure on the police to
> shift more records to the computer will simply add to the  
> administrative
> hoops they have to jump through.  In most professional activity,  
> computer
> records are supplementary  rather than core.
>
> Paul Spicker



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