Law Enforcement

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This paper aims to show how law enforcement has been both positively and, at times, adversely affected by technology. The paper contends that, since small departments are underfunded and under-manned, they miss out on technological breakthroughs as law enforcement advances technologically. The paper assesses that both big and small law enforcement departments continue to be pressured into implementing newer techniques and technologies to fight crime. With those pressures come the demands of upgrading equipment, but it also creates a need for better educated and well-trained human resource aspects.

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"A typical police department in America has become an extremely busy place. In most cases, just the basic 911 traffic is overwhelming. In the City of Richmond for example, there were over one million 911 calls in the year 2001. "This division received 907,000 E-911 calls and 366,000 wireless 911 calls during 2001 and dispatched 347,584 police calls for service and 26,282 fire calls for service." (Division of Emergency Communications, 2004) Obviously, in a case of this many emergency calls, technology is the only way a small department can handle this type of volume. "Its Computer Added Dispatch System (CADS) operates at more than 30 million instructions per second providing seamless and timely delivery of public safety services to the citizens." (Division of Emergency Communications, 2004) The city of Richmond's police have dedicated the resources of a division to meet their responsibility to uphold public safety and also to administer non-public safety radio communications. The division has also been implemented as the city's Emergency 911 call center. The division operates 24/7 and requires a staff of over forty communications officers and supervisors. "The Division of Emergency Communications dispatches calls for the Police Department, Fire Department, Emergency Medical Services, and Public Works." (Division of Emergency Communications, 2004) Technological advances allow the division to accept and process any 911 call and also to field other non-emergency type calls. The advances in communication provide the entire community with a communications link that incorporates citizens, public safety field personnel and other city services."

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