NCJ Number
205073
Journal
Law Enforcement Technology Volume: 31 Issue: 3 Dated: March 2004 Pages: 120,122,125
Date Published
March 2004
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This article describes the information sharing capabilities that Motorola’s Digital Justice System (DIJ) offers to law enforcement agencies.
Abstract
The City of Henderson, NV implemented Motorola’s DIJ system after experiencing a 190 percent growth rate during the 1990’s. In order to keep up with the expanding population, Henderson’s criminal justice agencies needed to have an integrated information network that would allow information sharing between the various departments. An integrated platform was needed for computer-aided dispatch, records management, automated fingerprints, booking, and jail and corrections management. The DIJ system fit the bill with a component-based enterprise application integration approach that boasts more than a dozen cross-functional business workflows and almost 100 cross-product use cases. The “master person” system serves to filter out duplicate person records, prevent false identification, and catch aliases used by repeat offenders. Another bonus of DIJ is that specific components are able to be upgraded, added, or replaced without deleterious effects on the rest of the system. Henderson is using Motorola’s Omnitrak AFIS/Palmprint Identification Technology, which allows city officials to quickly identify suspects who have been arrested. The City of Henderson is also pleased with Motorola’s LiveScan Station 3000, which identifies individuals as part of its integrative system and the Infotrak Law Records Management System, which enables the city to effectively manage the recording, indexing, and tracing of criminal and noncriminal incidents and individuals. Utilizing these and other DIJ components has helped the City of Henderson manage its criminal justice functions under the stress of a quickly expanding population.