The department currently has 21 laptops in use. The modems for these laptops range from 2800 baud to 28.8 baud and were designed by USRobotics-MegaHertz . At the present time, the Mount Pleasant Police Department has twenty-one laptops. In order that they be maintained, the laptops are kept in a locker in the Patrol Room and are each assigned a barcode number. When an officer needs a laptop, the supervisor will scan the barcode on a laptop, assigning that laptop to the officer for the shift.
Officers utilize laptop computers in the field to prepare the written police report.
The officer then prints out the report at Headquarters for the supervisor's approval.