Headline – A joint venture between a Minnesota county Sheriff and city PD near US-Canadian border nets new digital information system:
City of Bemidji, Beltrami County, MN; July 2004 -- The Bemidji, MN Police Department and Beltrami County, MN Sheriff's Office, as part of a joint venture aimed at streamlining the information management infrastructure in Beltrami County, announce a new contract with CODY Systems to provide a single-source, integrated software solution for both agencies' records, jail, and civil process management, as well as computer-aided dispatch needs.
Beltrami County and the City of Bemidji are located at the headwaters of the Mississippi river, just below the US-Canadian border, making the need for an efficient information management system paramount. As a result, the Bemidji PD and Beltrami Sheriff have agreed to share one integrated records, jail, civil process, and dispatch system, with all data residing in one database. To achieve this goal, the departments have contracted with CODY Systems - Pottstown, PA, to provide the software solution. Specifically, the agencies have purchased components from CODY's Integrated Public Safety System: records management, jail management, civil process management, and computer-aided dispatch (with E911 interface). Further, both agencies have purchased CODY's integrated GPS-enabled dispatch and crime-analysis mapping engine. As part of the collaborative effort, the duties of maintaining the system will be divided between the two agencies. Both agency networks will be linked via a gateway, giving officers and deputies full access to the system from anywhere within the two agencies.
Bemidji Police Chief Bruce Preece and Beltrami Sheriff Keith Winger have stated that the need for an integrated information system is what drove the search that led to CODY. Chief Preece stated that "We [Bemidji Police and Beltrami Sheriff] were tired of maintaining a bunch of separate systems and databases for police records, sheriff records, jail records, CAD calls...I could go on. This new system from CODY gives us what we have been looking for - one integrated system that allows us to keep track of ALL our shared information in one place and access it from anywhere within both agencies."
Further, both men were adamant that any system they purchased would have interfaces to Minnesota criminal information databases. Of specific importance were integrated links to MRAP (Minnesota Repository of Arrest Photographs), criMNet (Minnesota's information-sharing network for jail and corrections facilities), Minnesota CJIS (Criminal Justice Information System), and VINES, Minnesota's victim notification service. The new CODY system will provide all of these interfaces, and will also convert all of the data currently in both agencies' databases and merge it into one.
This exciting joint venture is just another example of the cooperative spirit between the Beltrami Sheriff and the Bemidji Police. "We have always tried to cooperate with each other, and this system from CODY lets us take that cooperation to a whole new level." - Chief Preece.
For more information please contact Chief Bruce Preece of the Bemidji Police, Beltrami Sheriff Keith Winger, or Jeff Williams of CODY Systems at 610-326-7476 or info@codysystems.com.
Also visit CODY on the web at www.codysystems.com.
About CODY Systems -- CODY Systems has remained an industry leader in the protection, management, and analysis of critical information for public safety, law enforcement, and federal agencies for over 25 years. Specializing in integrated single-source solutions and interoperable information-sharing, CODY is sought by agencies world-wide for its combination of ground-breaking 21st century technologies and old-fashioned 'first-name basis' services. CODY's industry-leading products include: RMS (records), CAD (dispatch), CMIS (case management & intelligence analysis), MRMS (mobile records), C.O.B.R.A. (collaborative object-based regional access) -- CODY's JXML compliant, open-data-source information-sharing interface, and many more.
Beltrami County and the City of Bemidji are located at the headwaters of the Mississippi river, just below the US-Canadian border, making the need for an efficient information management system paramount. As a result, the Bemidji PD and Beltrami Sheriff have agreed to share one integrated records, jail, civil process, and dispatch system, with all data residing in one database. To achieve this goal, the departments have contracted with CODY Systems - Pottstown, PA, to provide the software solution. Specifically, the agencies have purchased components from CODY's Integrated Public Safety System: records management, jail management, civil process management, and computer-aided dispatch (with E911 interface). Further, both agencies have purchased CODY's integrated GPS-enabled dispatch and crime-analysis mapping engine. As part of the collaborative effort, the duties of maintaining the system will be divided between the two agencies. Both agency networks will be linked via a gateway, giving officers and deputies full access to the system from anywhere within the two agencies.
Bemidji Police Chief Bruce Preece and Beltrami Sheriff Keith Winger have stated that the need for an integrated information system is what drove the search that led to CODY. Chief Preece stated that "We [Bemidji Police and Beltrami Sheriff] were tired of maintaining a bunch of separate systems and databases for police records, sheriff records, jail records, CAD calls...I could go on. This new system from CODY gives us what we have been looking for - one integrated system that allows us to keep track of ALL our shared information in one place and access it from anywhere within both agencies."
Further, both men were adamant that any system they purchased would have interfaces to Minnesota criminal information databases. Of specific importance were integrated links to MRAP (Minnesota Repository of Arrest Photographs), criMNet (Minnesota's information-sharing network for jail and corrections facilities), Minnesota CJIS (Criminal Justice Information System), and VINES, Minnesota's victim notification service. The new CODY system will provide all of these interfaces, and will also convert all of the data currently in both agencies' databases and merge it into one.
This exciting joint venture is just another example of the cooperative spirit between the Beltrami Sheriff and the Bemidji Police. "We have always tried to cooperate with each other, and this system from CODY lets us take that cooperation to a whole new level." - Chief Preece.
For more information please contact Chief Bruce Preece of the Bemidji Police, Beltrami Sheriff Keith Winger, or Jeff Williams of CODY Systems at 610-326-7476 or info@codysystems.com.
Also visit CODY on the web at www.codysystems.com.