{"id":611,"date":"2011-07-13T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2011-07-13T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:45:07","slug":"new-garden-police-unveil-new-information-sharing-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"New Garden police unveil new information-sharing system"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new crime data intranet that could enhance information sharing among local police proposed by chief<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By P.J. D\u2019Annunzio <\/span><\/strong>Staff Writer, Kennetttimes.com<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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New Garden police are pitching a plan to share data among local police departments, even between in-car computers.<\/p><\/div>\n

NEW GARDEN \u2014 Police departments across the region are readying themselves to implement the next generation of crime fighting tools and a potential addition to their arsenal is a new information-sharing system devised by township Police Chief Gerald Simpson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pending certain improvements with the New Garden police server system, Simpson seeks to create an interdepartmental intranet hosted by New Garden and linked to police departments including Oxford, West Grove, Kennett Square Borough, Kennett Township, and East Marlborough.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his technology briefing on Monday night, Simpson introduced his idea to the New Garden Township Board of Supervisors.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis [network] will allow for the police departments in this area, in this region, to be able to share information immediately,\u201d Simpson said, \u201cIn this region because there are a lot of municipal police departments, a lot of times information sharing is not very fluid, it may happen after the fact; a couple hours, a couple days\u2026this will allow police departments individually to access this platform and post information, almost like a blog or social networking site.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The site, accessed solely by law enforcement officers, would have specific areas where information warranting different levels of attention would be designated by priority level: high, low, or general information. The network would also have the capability to be accessed from individual police cruisers, thus turning each car into a mobile office.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a series of precious metal thefts around the area,\u201d Simpson said, \u201cIf we get a photograph or information about that we could post it on the site and somebody in Oxford who comes into their shift will be able to log onto the site, look at it,\u00a0and say \u2018hey I recognize that car,\u2019 and maybe that will bring them closer to closing the case. That\u2019s ultimately what it\u2019s designed to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But creating an intranet such as the one proposed wouldn\u2019t be cheap, as Simpson freely stated to the board. The total cost for the implementation of the system, including the construction of the network, air card service provided by Sprint, expansion of licensing agreements with the record management system, and upgraded laptops would be approximately $34,440.<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to foot the cost Simpson recommended that the department defer one of two pending purchases of replacements police cars for two cruisers currently in service, the surplus funds resulting from a single purchase coming to approximately $26,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will make do with what I have in that regard,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cI\u2019m more concerned with the data than I am with the car. I have other options with the car.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the $34,000 sum would be\u00a0met with $4,000 redirected from the department\u2019s building maintenance fund and an amount\u00a0from the asset seizures fund.<\/span><\/p>\n

There would also be a buy-in cost of $3200 for police departments wanting inclusion into the network, along with fees for the recurring cost of the air cards. The project is dependent upon all interested departments pitching in, the idea being that no one department is overburdened with operating costs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The proposal was received positively by the board, who commended Simpson on the ingenuity displayed in the creation of the networking concept.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cChief, I believe speak for the entire board when I say we\u2019ve been very impressed with the professionalism and business approach you\u2019ve taken to running the department,\u201d Board member Bob Norris said<\/span><\/p>\n

The motion to reorganize the distribution of\u00a0New\u00a0Garden police\u00a0funds for the purpose of creating the intranet system was carried unanimously by the board. <\/span>The future of the project remains contingent upon the involvement of the regional departments during the next phase of development.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new crime data intranet that could enhance information sharing among local police proposed by chief By P.J. D\u2019Annunzio Staff Writer, Kennetttimes.com NEW GARDEN \u2014 Police departments across the region are readying themselves to implement the next generation of crime fighting tools and a potential addition to their arsenal is a new information-sharing system devised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[124,19,92,125],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-data","tag-new-garden","tag-police","tag-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}