I just want to clarify the nature of what occurred, can you tell us a little bit about
what happened?
I wanna make sure I describe it accurately for officers.
Annually, on average, we average about nine hundred thousand phone calls through our 911
system.
A little over 250 thousand of those calls go into our Computer Aided Dispatch, into
our CAD system.
And what that is is, when someone calls 911, we gather some information initially from
the phone company, which is the phone number, the name of the person calling…
Do you have the description of the vehicle, like what color, make, model?
And also, on what the information of the call is, such as if it’s a burglary, somebody’s
breaking into my neighbor’s house…
All that information is then entered digitally into the computer and then sent over to our
dispatchers.
That information then is sent to the mobile data terminals or the computers in the police
officer’s car.
We are very concerned about the security of our CAD, our computer dispatch and the records
that they keep, so only sworn Seattle Police Department officers and then certain civilians
are allowed access to those records.
Our CAD system allows us to work more efficiently out in the field, it saves us quite a bit
of time, it gives us more information than we used to have by just being able to relay
it over the air.
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