Officers can get a driver's history, check on stolen articles, concealed weapon permits, incidents of domestic violence and sex offender registrations. Officers can also check on where other officers are. Eventually officers will be able to take incident reports on the computers. Right now, three officers are approved for using a Computer Crash Program, which calculates speed from skid marks. They can do so from their cars, which have that program.
Officers can remove the laptops from the vehicles.
Three grants are paying for the MDTs one each from the Governor's Crime Commission, the Governor's Highway Safety Program, a local law enforcement block grant program, and matching funds from the city of Wilson.