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The adventure of about 30 km between the Leland Police Department and the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office in Bolivia lasts about 30 minutes.
Until recently, officials turned this hour of travel into circular vacations whenever they needed to make an arrest or see a magistrate, several times according to the shift.
The department’s recent investment in new generation and apparatus is turning that into, allowing officers to process arrests from Leland Police Station, saving time and resources in the procedure.
More evidence of generation advancement in more living spaces in the wake of COVID-19, those new police changes and advances may be just one integral component of small law enforcement agencies, especially in rural communities.
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Located at the rear of the Leland Police Department is its reservation room, now complete with 3 new pieces of equipment: an iximeter, an automated fingerprint identification formula, and a video justice of the peace formula.
According to Police Chief Jeremy Humphries, the addition of those elements means that branch officials and other law enforcement agencies operating in the region can fully process arrests internally, rather than going to the sheriff’s office and criminal in Bolivia.
The intoxicant allows officials to perform breathalyzer tests in CFA instances from their headquarters, which in Bolivia. The automated fingerprint identification formula allows officials to download fingerprints on instances that want them and upload them digitally to the state, rather than processing paper files.
The video Justice of the Peace system, he said, is the most important piece of the apparatus when it comes to saving city officials time and resources.
This formula is used for officials to appear before them for first appearances with suspects, to download arrest warrants or to carry out other cases.
“Our staff is really pleased with the effect the software has provided,” Humphries said. “It allows them to get back on the streets faster than later. “
Before the device was fully usable around February of this year, officials would make an arrest, search for the suspect, begin internal documents and then bolivia. There, the suspect, once again, would be searched and more documents would be obtained.
Then, after queuing at other agencies, the officer and the detained user gave the impression before a Justice of the Peace to set the situations for their release. The procedure can take as little as a few hours.
Now, Leland police remain in town and head to the police station where they are treating their suspect and appear before the Justice of the Peace via a secure video chat link.
Humphries said the new procedure saves staff hours of work a day and provides benefits for vehicle and gas use and wear, especially earlier this year, when the price of gasoline reached nearly $5 per gallon.
“It saves time and helps keep staff here within Leland’s municipal boundaries,” he said.
Humphries said discussions related to adding much of this generation have been ongoing for several years and their installation is confusing due to the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain issues.
When the branch began exploring the concept of adding the automated fingerprint identification system, the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to know how many other people officials and other arrested people were in contact with.
“So it got us thinking and we started looking for artistic tactics to continue to provide a service or do our homework while we were looking to restrict exposure from our own staff, as well as staff and other people from other facilities,” Humphries said. .
Being able to supply the same facilities from his Leland station, he said, limits that imaginable exposure. Humphries said that while those technologies have been favorable to the existing situation, they are not just a reactive solution to COVID-19.
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“It’s anything that if COVID went away tomorrow, we would stop,” he said. “This whole device is things we’ll continue to use. “
Humphries said there was some local charge for those systems, but that the intoxicant was provided through the North Carolina Division of Alcohol Forensics.
Humphries added that this device can be used by the North Carolina Highway Patrol and law enforcement agencies in the far north of Brunswick County, and even in Columbus County.
In particular, he said, the intoxicant will be when those agencies have instances that require a breath test, they will be able to use Leland’s without having to drive anymore.
Humphries said this type of generation may be more standardized in smaller law enforcement agencies, especially in rural counties. Since Leland installed the equipment, he said, two other agencies in the county have asked about the benefits they’ve seen.
These agencies, he said, are also adding similar devices to streamline their arrest processes.
Jamey Cross is the public protection reporter at StarNews. Contact her at jbcross@gannett. com or message her on Twitter @jameybcross.
This article was originally published in Wilmington StarNews: Leland Police Implement New Technology to Streamline Arrest Process