Why Police Departments Struggle to Track Vehicle Equipment

It's much like the issues with tracking equipment for your officers. The good news is it's simpler. There's less equipment inside of patrol cars, more valuable equipment, but it's also less prone to movement or loss. So much of it is attached to the car; it’s not going to be lost. This equipment is installed in the car, whether that's done in-house or through a professional installation company. Somewhere there are receipts and invoices for all this stuff. But if that information is not readily available and not convenient to locate, you can't really know what each car has in it or if changes have been made through wear and tear damage or what have you. 

SOLUTION

So just like we do with the officers, you have to start gathering that information. You have to establish that ground truth. So you can start with something as simple as a template that you can download below.  And start building the information: The make, the model, the serial numbers– all of that information has to be located and written down, whether that's electronic or hard copy. That's the very beginning of a system. You can stop at that point. You can say, this is all I need, or you can take it and put it into another fully fledged system like ours that makes it even easier. But at a minimum, you have to start gathering that information to even know what the truth is. 

For more information, contact ggrippin@nuegov.com.

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