Presentation by Guest Speakers, Lt. Rich Schnieders and Cpl. Gary Desrosiers

1. Explanation of Technical Services Division 

• Two officers (Lt. Rich Schnieders and Cpl. Gary Desrosiers) and 
• IT civilians including two programmers.

2. IT Tools

• Laptops with full wireless LAN
• Fingerprint & MugShots
• High Tech Communication Center
• etc.

3. Laptop Project: Making a patrol car an office using Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD).  

• CDPD Coverage: outlays existing cellular voice network
• Speed: 19.2 kbs airlink
• Reliability: Reed-Soloman Error Correction
• Security: RSA RC4 encryption and mobile device authentication
• Virtual Connection: connectionless packet data architecture
• Internet Protocol
• It takes 3 seconds to send and receive information from a laptop to FCIC.

4. Application of technology (Mobile Solution)

• Dispatch
• Wants/Warrants & Messaging
• Incident/Offense Report Writing
• Crash report Writing
• Booking Report Writing
• Field Interview Cards
• MugShots.

5. Hardware

• Panasonic CF-27 laptop with internal CDPD modem.  
• The laptop is durable.  
• Lt. Schnieders actually threw a laptop to the floor in from of us and it was still working.

6. Live Demonstration of Applications

• FrontLine: Dispatch, Wants/Warrants (with voice message delivery)
• FrontPartner: Booking Report, traffic Crash Report (with Visio)
• WebMug:

7. Q&A Session

• The applications were designed by the Sheriff's Office and developed by Vision Tech.
• The applications are customized to the operations of the Sheriff's Office.
• Tools used to develop the applications include PowerBuilder, C++, Visual Basic, MS Access, Oracle, MS SQL Server.
• $26 flat rate per month per laptop for communication.
• Installed the applications on 400 laptops plus desktops.  (license fee is about $1.6 million with a big discount).
• It will be paper-less operations within the regulation of laws.
• the Division is planning to make some public information available on the Internet.
• The Division is looking for a programmer (html).