Now, State Police will use lasers to reconstruct accidents. He remembers attending a conference out of state recently and being able to e-mail troopers directly in their cars via laptop computers, something they all have now. The changes have proved too much for some of the older troopers. Mitchell is not slowing down. He said he is striving for a paperless office.
Paper pervades law enforcement.
Everything results in paper. He said the troop has two large rooms full of paper files. Mitchell s own office is perhaps a model for the future. His brown desk is shiny and clean, and files are nowhere to be seen. He apologizes for the few scraps of paper he has on his desk and throws a couple away.