The Quitman Police Department is thrilled to officially have their new LEAP system installed to use for maintaining reports and case information.
For up to a year now, the department has been searching for a system to help keep their records and reports. Once they received board approval, they researched to find the most cost effective system that would meet the needs for a department their size. Eventually, they found LEAP.
“They’ve been sending me demos and things online so we could see how it works and what their procedures are for case reports and stuff like that,” explained Captain Thereasa Haire. “Some of the systems out there are $30,000 to $50,000 plus an annual fee to use the cloud and their servers and stuff like that. They weren’t approachable for small departments since we wouldn’t need everything they have. LEAP is more affordable and does what we need it to do.”
The new system makes case reports more accessible and organized so that no evidence or case reports can be misplaced. There are safety measures in place to make sure that no reports are deleted or go missing.
“The new LEAP system is for our new records filing,” continued Haire. “We don’t have to keep up with paper forms anymore. Once it’s put in the computer when you do a case report or something like that, and it needs to go through and upgrades to a felony, we can follow it all the way through and add pictures and evidence. It stays in one place. We’ve been doing it the old school way where it’s all on paper. We’re trying to get away from that and move forward. Once information is put in LEAP, it cannot be taken out. Only one person can erase anything from the filing system, and that is going to be the chief. He’s going to be the admin on that side. It can also be recovered through the people with the LEAP system. It has a battery powered back up and is backed up on its own hard drives and stuff, so it isn’t vjust at our office. Officers can make corrections to reports, and it will make a secondary copy of it, but the original report will still be there. I have two or three officers that have already used it at other departments, so we already have a step in the door for that. For the ones that haven’t used it, I’ll have something typed up so that they’ll know exactly what to do and where to go.”
Investigator David Viverette is excited about the system and has already begun to file cases in it.
“It is awesome,” proclaimed Viverette. “I can put in the jail docket. I can create files. It tracks everything about you, from the scene all the way to the funeral. It’s a file that tracks everything about you, and I can pull it up from any computer. If she goes and does a follow up on something and comes back and puts in a statement, I can put in the case number and pull that statement from her computer into mine. It cuts out the middle man, so to speak. You don’t do a whole lot of running trying to find a specific folder or moving to different computers.”
The change with the new system in place will have plenty of positive outcomes for the department and will assist them in seeing all cases worked all the way through without as much hassle.
