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Salt Lake County
Sheriff’s Office makes arrest after using information from jail
management system.
Offender Management System assists
in criminal investigation.
Altoona,
Pennsylvania – April 1, 2010 – When conducting
an investigation, being able to quickly gather data can mean the difference
between making an arrest and having a suspect on the streets, possibly
committing more crimes. With help from their new Offender Management
System, the Salt Lake County, Utah Sheriff’s Office Corrections
Bureau was able to quickly retrieve information from their database
and provide a lead to the detectives who were investigating a serious
crime.
During the summer of 2009,
the Sheriff’s Office was investigating a crime with very little
information available to assist them in solving it. The detectives
who were working the case turned to the Corrections Bureau for help.
Armed with a brief physical description of the suspect, the detectives
followed their normal routine and asked the Corrections Bureau to query
their records in the jail management system. Instead of contacting the
Information Services staff to perform a database query, the Corrections
Bureau decided to utilize the newly purchased Offender Management System
to perform the task.
The Corrections Divisions
Computer Liaison Sergeant, who was in a training session being held
for the new Offender Management System, took the information and ran
it against the corrections bureau’s converted data that was being
used for training and testing purposes. Using the suspect’s
height, weight, age range and a partial description of a tattoo, the
Sergeant ran a query against the new system.
Using the limited information,
the query yielded a pool of 238 possible matches of current or former
inmates. From those query results, a photo lineup was created
and the sergeant was able to narrow down the potential offenders to
two very likely suspects. Printouts of the two were made and handed
off to the Detective Division. The detectives identified one of
the potential suspects as a “person of interest” based on
his place of residence being within a two block radius of the crime
scene. Upon investigation, an arrest warrant was issued and the
suspect was arrested shortly thereafter.
“It was very gratifying
to us that even before Go-Live implementation; the OMS was already being
successfully utilized as an investigative tool and was of great value
in solving a crime in short order” said Captain Richard Church,
of the Salt Lake County Corrections Bureau. “This search was conducted
during a training class to prepare the jail staff in using the OMS.
They quickly learned firsthand just how easy it was to use and the types
of information that could be extracted for use by other divisions and
agencies. Our efforts to preserve and convert all possible existing
data from our previous system paid off by making this information readily
available.”
The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s
Office awarded Digital
Solutions / Inmate Telephone, Inc. (DSI / ITI) a contract to install
and implement their industry leading Offender Management System at the
Corrections Bureau in 2008.
In November 2009, the Offender
Management System (OMS) was placed into production at the Corrections
Bureau of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s office. The Detective
Division and Patrol Precincts, along with other local law enforcement
and criminal justice agencies, now have the capability to export data
directly from OMS without contacting the Corrections Bureau for assistance.
This ability not only provides for quicker investigations by investigators,
but ensures that corrections officers can conduct their responsibilities
both safely and efficiently.
Captain Church also elaborated
on how the OMS will improve their experience. “This product is
aptly named, at least in our case. The monumental change from a text
based, mainframe database system was like night and day. While we previously
used a system that was written in-house to preserve all relevant prisoner
management data, it had extremely limited provisions for reporting and
data extraction, which required a few staff with specialized tools and
talent to facilitate that analysis. Now, the system is accessible by
anyone with a computer, whether on or off-site, allowing for remote
bookings by mobile data terminals, instant reporting at crime and major
incident scenes, and easy access to all of the previous data to any
authorized persons. Even the public now has easier access to more information
than ever before, including prisoner images.”
For those interested in
learning more about inmate telephone services or software designed specifically
for the corrections industry, visit the Digital Solutions / Inmate Telephone,
Inc.’s website at http://www.dsiiti.com,
or contact Mr. Thomas Brence by calling 888.222.3081.
About Salt Lake County Jail
The mission of the Salt
Lake County Jail is to protect the public through the booking and detention
of individuals who pose a danger to society, provide humane care to
those incarcerated and facilitate programs which will assist them in
avoiding future criminal activity.
About
Digital Solutions / Inmate Telephone, Inc.
Established
in 1984 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Digital Solutions Incorporated (DSI)
is a privately-held technology company that specializes in automating
corrections agencies. Its sister company, Inmate Telephone Incorporated
(ITI), was founded in 1994 to create and maintain state-of-the-art inmate
phone systems for correctional facilities.
More than twenty five years
of successful implementations in over four hundred agencies has enabled
DSI / ITI to become the leading provider of software solutions to the
corrections industry. The company attributes much of their success
to the practice of involving users in the design phases of the application
development process - input that is critical in enabling the company
to continually improve, while building a sense of ownership among the
communities they serve.
For more company news and information
visit http://www.dsiiti.comNews_and_Events.shtml
The DSI / ITI corporate web site can be found at http://www.dsiiti.com
This article was also distributed through PRWeb.
Contact:
Thomas Brence, Director of Marketing
Digital Solutions
/ Inmate Telephone, Inc.
ph. 888.222.3081
fx.
814.949.3307
www.dsiiti.com
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