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 Evaluation of location-based services for police: GPS-enabled cell phones and laptops for applications of law enforcement patrol
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              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              Board of Regents, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Award #
              2010-DE-BX-K001
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Lincoln, NE
Congressional District
              1
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2010
Total funding (to date)
              $494,516
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 10 Geospatial Technology
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2010, $294,516)
The Board of Regents, University of Nebraska  Lincoln propose to evaluate whether existing commercial, off the shelf, hand-held computing devices using geospatial technology can efficiently increase police capacity. Geocoded police data will be incorporated into the moving map of an AVL system, so that police officers are constantly being presented with information about events or persons relevant to their current position. Specifically, the applicants will compare: 1) stationary GPS-enabled laptops running a virtual globe program mounted in patrol cruisers, to 2) hand-held cell phones with GPS and geospatial visualization capabilities and determine whether there is an impact on law enforcement objectives. The project is informed by theory suggesting that technological acceptance is increased by characteristics that are reflected in commercially-available cell phones equipped with geovisualization.

The project has significant policy impacts for the criminal justice system: The increasing availability of geospatial data may result in considerable system efficiencies and cost savings. Technologies and equipment in common usage today for business, recreation, and entertainment operates exactly as this project proposes, and adoption across the nation is likely. Communities will be better served as patrolling activities will be location oriented. The application goals of the project are: 1) pilot mobile devices with geospatial capabilities to increase police responsiveness; 2) increase efficiency of human and material law enforcement resources, and 3) demonstrate that these capabilities can quickly be adopted in agencies which are already geocoding similar police data.



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Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2011, $200,000)
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, partnering with the Lincoln Police Department (LPD) will evaluate whether existing commercial, off the shelf, hand-held computing devices using geospatial technology can efficiently increase police capacity.  Geocoded police data will be incorporated into the moving map of an automated vehicle location (AVL) system, so police officers are constantly being presented with information about events or persons relevant to their current position.
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                      Randomized-Trial Evaluation of a Law Enforcement Application for Smartphones and Laptops that Uses GIS and Location-Based Services' to Pinpoint Persons-of-Interest

  
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