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INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No. 9462
January 31, 2012
To the Mayor and Members of the City Council
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SUBJECT: FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT IMPLEMENTS NEW
ELECTRONIC ACCIDENT SOFTWARE
The Fort Worth Police Department has purchased Report Beam softw
electronically complete traffic accident reports. The data colleidentify areas of
the city where there is a higher than average number of accident
police resources. The new software will also allow citizens to o
reports more quickly. Prior to Report Beam, the officers completed accident reports manually and
sent them via the internal mail system to Police Records. The pr
working days. The new software will drastically reduce the wait
reports.
Phase 1 of the implementation began in December 2011, with offic
software at police facilities. Phase 2 is the installation of th
computers in police vehicles. This will begin in late January orebruary 2012. Phase 3,
which is anticipated to begin in August 2012, will entail sendin
Texas Department of Transportation.
The Fort Worth Police Department is the second police agency in s
electronic accident software. It is anticipated that the new sof
the electronic transmission and storage of accident reports.
Tom Higgins
City Manager
ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH, TEXAS