Headline – Navajo Nation President Joseph Shirley, Jr., announces purchase of CODY Systems software for Navajo Division of Public Safety: Wireless system will allow police in the field to handle information instantly throughout the Nation.
Window Rock, AZ; December, 2004 -- Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., today announced that the Navajo Division of Public Safety has purchased a major new software program that will provide a wireless, single-source, integrated information-management system for its officers in the field.
Navajo DPS will use CODY's Integrated Public Safety System, consisting of Records Management (with bar-coding for evidence and property), Computer-Aided Dispatch, Mobile Records/Field Reporting, Case Management, Jail Management, and CODY's Crime and Traffic Analysis and Mapping module.
"With this system from CODY, we can finally achieve our goals.” President Shirley said. “All our field offices, officers, mobile units, everyone, has real-time access to one integrated information network from literally anywhere on the reservation. The potential for this system is huge."
To integrate, share, and analyze information between the eight Navajo DPS offices and mobile units, the Nation also purchased COBRA, CODY's cross-platform data-sharing and analysis interface.
Navajo police officers will be equipped with a “ruggedized” laptop computer mounted in their police units with wireless internet capability. CODY Systems will provide the software only. Computers will be supplied by another vendor under a separate contract.
The system will permit officers to write, file and receive a wide range of information wirelessly whenever they are near a chapterhouse anywhere on the Navajo Nation. Every chapterhouse has been wired as a internet hotspot. This will permit officers to be more visible to the public and cut down on personal overtime by as much as two hours per shift.
As many as 250 officers and sergeants will be equipped in phases. Implementation will begin by the end of January 2005 when a new server capable of handling the speed and information comes online.
Samson Cowboy, executive director of the Navajo Division of Public Safety, said the need was to find a software program and applicable hardware solution that would allow the DPS to do two things:
Because of the huge land area of the Navajo Nation, President Shirley and Mr. Cowboy sought an integrated software program that would consist of a top-shelf records management system, a computer-aided dispatch system, and a mobile records/field-reporting system.
Guiding their search was finding a system that was fully integrated and intuitive for the officer in the field, and finding a system that would enable all the DPS offices and mobile units throughout the 27,000 square miles of the Nation to link together to share information wirelessly in real-time.
CODY Systems, a leading technology firm in the public safety sector, has provided the necessary software to accomplish these goals.
The Navajo DPS patrols all 27,000 square miles of the Nation, most of which is rural with limited infrastructure. This has always posed a challenge to providing services to the Navajo citizens.
A few years ago, with the emergence of wireless technology and the growth of the public safety software market, President Shirley set a goal for the Nation to overhaul NDPS's existing computer/software infrastructure to more efficiently deliver services to all the Nation's citizens.
No other vendor offered the level of technology, integration, and cross-platform data sharing that he deemed essential to the NDPS project.
"CODY's COBRA interface is like nothing else on the market today,” Mr. Cowboy said. “It is light-years ahead.”
He said the company’s consistently unmatched records and mobile systems made it simply the best possible decision the Navajo Nation could make.
For more information please contact:
Samson Cowboy - Executive Director Navajo Division of Public Safety: 928-871-6581
John Rychlak - CODY Systems at 610-326-7476 or info@codysystems.com.
Patrick Sandoval - Chief of Staff, Office of the President and Vice President, 928-871-7912
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.
Navajo DPS will use CODY's Integrated Public Safety System, consisting of Records Management (with bar-coding for evidence and property), Computer-Aided Dispatch, Mobile Records/Field Reporting, Case Management, Jail Management, and CODY's Crime and Traffic Analysis and Mapping module.
"With this system from CODY, we can finally achieve our goals.” President Shirley said. “All our field offices, officers, mobile units, everyone, has real-time access to one integrated information network from literally anywhere on the reservation. The potential for this system is huge."
To integrate, share, and analyze information between the eight Navajo DPS offices and mobile units, the Nation also purchased COBRA, CODY's cross-platform data-sharing and analysis interface.
Navajo police officers will be equipped with a “ruggedized” laptop computer mounted in their police units with wireless internet capability. CODY Systems will provide the software only. Computers will be supplied by another vendor under a separate contract.
The system will permit officers to write, file and receive a wide range of information wirelessly whenever they are near a chapterhouse anywhere on the Navajo Nation. Every chapterhouse has been wired as a internet hotspot. This will permit officers to be more visible to the public and cut down on personal overtime by as much as two hours per shift.
As many as 250 officers and sergeants will be equipped in phases. Implementation will begin by the end of January 2005 when a new server capable of handling the speed and information comes online.
Samson Cowboy, executive director of the Navajo Division of Public Safety, said the need was to find a software program and applicable hardware solution that would allow the DPS to do two things:
- Integrate all of the programs under the DPS umbrella on one unified information system/database.
- Link all DPS field offices with the main headquarters to form an integrated information-sharing network.
Because of the huge land area of the Navajo Nation, President Shirley and Mr. Cowboy sought an integrated software program that would consist of a top-shelf records management system, a computer-aided dispatch system, and a mobile records/field-reporting system.
Guiding their search was finding a system that was fully integrated and intuitive for the officer in the field, and finding a system that would enable all the DPS offices and mobile units throughout the 27,000 square miles of the Nation to link together to share information wirelessly in real-time.
CODY Systems, a leading technology firm in the public safety sector, has provided the necessary software to accomplish these goals.
The Navajo DPS patrols all 27,000 square miles of the Nation, most of which is rural with limited infrastructure. This has always posed a challenge to providing services to the Navajo citizens.
A few years ago, with the emergence of wireless technology and the growth of the public safety software market, President Shirley set a goal for the Nation to overhaul NDPS's existing computer/software infrastructure to more efficiently deliver services to all the Nation's citizens.
No other vendor offered the level of technology, integration, and cross-platform data sharing that he deemed essential to the NDPS project.
"CODY's COBRA interface is like nothing else on the market today,” Mr. Cowboy said. “It is light-years ahead.”
He said the company’s consistently unmatched records and mobile systems made it simply the best possible decision the Navajo Nation could make.
For more information please contact:
Samson Cowboy - Executive Director Navajo Division of Public Safety: 928-871-6581
John Rychlak - CODY Systems at 610-326-7476 or info@codysystems.com.
Patrick Sandoval - Chief of Staff, Office of the President and Vice President, 928-871-7912
Also visit CODY on the web at www.codysystems.com.