Subject: [NEXTEL-1] "Rural Police Departments Using Advanced Wireless Networks"

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:12:38 -0500

"Rural Police Departments Using Advanced Wireless Networks"
Associated Press (11/30/02); Koenig, David

The Sulphur Springs police department installed a $165,000
wireless system developed by Skystream technologies in
September. The system allows officers to retrieve
information on suspects and vehicles in just seconds, which
saves officers valuable time compared to the previous
time-consuming method of contacting the Texas Department of
Public Safety computers. Assistant Chief Robert Stidham
notes the system provides securer information searches for
officers and eliminates the need to hire an additional
dispatcher because officers now conduct many of their own
records checks. Kelly Harris of the National Consortium for
Justice Information and Statistics, said the system results
in overall savings because of lower infrastructure costs,
despite the high cost of operating over Sprint PCS' 3G
wireless network. http://www.ap.org/

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