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Police to join federal network

By: Michael Bellart
Staff Writer

November 14, 2002

* Mayfield Heights, Highland Heights departments to buy mobile software to connect patrol cars to data system

The cities of Mayfield Heights and Highland Heights will have a new tool to protect and serve their police officers.

The cities will buy Mobile Data Terminal System software to network a patrol car into the federal Law Enforcement Automated Data System.

The LEADS is a database that will allow police officers to do identity checks on drivers or suspects, without having to call police dispatch.

The software is installed into a laptop computer that officers will take while patrolling. The laptops are mobile and allow each city's department to move the terminals from car to car if needed.

Mayfield Heights Police Chief Joseph Donnelly said the advantage of the system is that it can immediately notify officers of any outstanding warrants or other information they might need before approaching a person or vehicle.

The terminals also will be connected to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles image database so an officer can look up a driver's license photo from a Social Security or license plate number.

This will increase officers' safety, because they will be able to see if persons without photo identification are whom they claim to be, Donnelly said.

The terminals also let officers file reports from their police cars.

This will allow officers to spend more time patrolling because they won't need to return to the office as often, Donnelly said.

The city will order five terminals for 10 police cars. The terminals should arrive within the next two weeks, the chief estimated.

Highland Heights Police Chief James Cook said it is buying five terminals for its seven cars.

Councils from the two cities approved the purchase of the systems this week.

Highland Heights council also approved the purchase of two digital video cameras for the police. Cook said the cameras will be installed in police cars to record chases.

The terminals will cost Mayfield Heights $68,000. Grant money is covering $50,000 of the cost.

The city will pay the other $18,000 from its general

fund.

Grants from the Homeland Security Act provided most of the funding for the system.

©The News-Herald 2002

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