When a police officer stops a driver for speeding or other unlawful activity, he usually does not know exactly what kind of situation he or she is getting into. The person in the car could be a fleeing felon, a drug trafficker or merely a careless driver. This technology especially designed for public safety agencies can help law enforcement officers gain more information about the people they encounter before any physical or verbal contact with them. Linking the officers in the field with some of the same records available to dispatch agents and officers at police stations help keep the officers safe because it allows them to check criminal histories prior to leaving their car. There is a notification that shows up on the officers' computer if the driver is a sex offender or he has been arrested for drugs or gang membership. This fairly new technology saves time, allowing for more productivity in the field, and more arrests and a safer envi

Another type of computer, which police use, is a radar or laser gun. This piece of equipment allows the officers to tell how fast a driver is going. Inadvertently radar guns have helped police catch many felons and drug dealers. When a police officer pulls a speeder over, they only expect that they are going to give a ticket. Some times, after using the computer, the officer finds that the person who was only going to get a ticket is wanted for a robbery, breaking probation or even committing a murder. One night, a police officer in Springfield was sitting in the median of I-55 one night and heard a roar go past him and his radar gun read 215m.p.h. The officer radioed to another officer further down on the interstate and told him about it. The second officer had the same thing happen a couple of minutes later. One of the officers radioed in to headquarters and told them. Police set up a roadblock near Chicago and caught a drug dealer driving a Dodge

Police computers can compare a bullet casing that they find at a crime scene with its database and find what kind of bullet it is. If police find a used bullet in the wall or even in the victim at a crime, they can cross the bullet with their database and find what kind of bullet it is and even find what kind of gun it was probably shot from. In order for someone to purchase a gun, the buyer's name must first be ran through the police's computer system. If the buyer had been arrested for a firearm offense, the sale will be rejected (Interview).

All sex offenders are required to give a sample of blood that the police keep on record in the computers. When police find blood or any other body fluid on or around a victim they can use the computers to check if it matches any previously convicted sex offender. Police also are able to check DNA records if they find skin under a victim's fingernails or if they find any pieces of hair. The computers allow for much quicker answers on who possibly did a crime.

Computers play an important role in the office life of police officers as well. The computers at headquarters are much larger and have many more features to aid in crime fighting. In addition to all of the things that mobile police computers can do, the main computers do much more.

Police computers help catch money launders. By law, you must file a report if you are depositing over $10,000 at any one time. The computers post an alert if someone makes several large transactions over a certain amount of time. This alerts police that the person could possibly be a drug dealer or be laundering money. This technology has lead to the arrest of some careless drug dealers and money launderers.

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