Formerly, in order to process an arrest, officers on patrol had to bring a suspect into the station house to fill out paperwork. Also, before eCOPS, officers on patrol had limited access to crime data using radio communication. With eCOPS there will be a flow of information both ways. Connected or disconnected, always informed The eCOPS solution leverages the strengths of DB2 Universal Database Satellite Edition as a mobile database and functions in a connected or disconnected mode. Information such as street names, arrest codes and makes and models of cars is available to officers, even when they are not logged in to the core database.
Officers can also create complete reports in the disconnected mode.
WebSphere Application Server accesses DB2 Universal Database either to store or retrieve arrest information and all other crime data. The developers are confident of the scalability of DB2 Universal Database. With our database platform, we can build the solution to be scalable to 10,000 simultaneous users. SMPO has a dedicated DB2 Migration Team that has helped more than 70 customers move to DB2 from non-IBM databases. IBM and Pentleton Consulting give us direction and technical advice and help us create a productive and effective team.