THEY'RE TAKING ON THE AVL SYSTEM!The City of Rosenberg has entered into an agreement with New World Systems for the purchase of an Automated Vehicle Location system, which allows for the real-time monitoring and locating of Rosenberg’s first responder vehicles. The addition of these services is part of the upgrade to the Public Safety Communications system.
The upgrade in its entirety will provide Rosenberg Police and Fire Departments, field personnel and dispatch staff with technology to enable the departments to function more safely and efficiently. The upgrade is part of a bond that passed in November 2006 to upgrade the Public Safety Communication Center. Installation is scheduled to begin next month.
The AVL system will allow the City’s dispatch positions to view and record the real time location of each AVL equipped police and fire vehicle. This technology merges Global Positioning System data from each vehicle with Geographical Information Systems, aerial photographs and maps in order to display and record the location of each vehicle at all times. This allows the Center to know the location of all vehicles and help decrease response times by assessing which officer is closest to an occurrence. It also allows dispatch to provide detailed information about the areas to Police, Fire and other field personnel at a scene. Rosenberg PD is the first agency in Fort Bend County to employ AVL technology for this purpose.
AVL provides more information and provides answers to questions field personnel often ask. In the field, Police and Fire personnel will have access to maps that display the location of the call, routing information to the call, the location of all other field personnel, and aerial photographs of the location. It will allow field supervisors to know the location of their personnel in the field at all times. It also allows those working dispatch to provide pertinent information to field workers about the location they were sent to. As a result the safety for field personnel has been increased. AVL makes it possible for police, fire and other first responders to immediately recognize spatial relationships, helping them make better decisions when time is a crucial factor.
Don't believe this crap for a second, folks. It has nothing to do with serving you better or cutting response times. The real issue (and an issue that none of you care about regardless, so why not just tell the truth about it?) is that ya'll are paying for a system designed to keep a finger on roving patrol units for discipline purposes. Again, i'm sure that most of you who have no idea what it is like to be a police officer are plenty good with a system that tracks police officers 24-7, and is subject to the freedom of information act, and that is fine, but why must people blindly be led like sheep and believe that this is "for there own good". It's not. It's for defense attorneys, civil attorneys, the IAD, and any numbnut muckracker "Investigative" Reporter that wants to grind an ax because the police threw him in jail a few times for P.C.S. and Domestic Violence...
ReplyDeleteHey Ike, Rosenberg isn't the only agency that has 24/7 GPS tracking capability on their patrol units. And, it isn't PRIMARILY used to better serve the public. IF it was being used for that, then response times would be down and those who shirk their sworn duty would have already been called on the carpet. These "big brother" systems have been installed for yep, you guessed it, to keep "a thumb" on those who do their job. Me, I don't care, I do what I'm supposed to and when I'm supposed to do it.....I just think taxpayers are getting screwed in this deal because the other half, the lazy half, aren't having their feet put to the fire......
ReplyDeleteYou know the Rosenberg cops aren't gonna like this one bit!
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think it's a waste of $$.