Through this permanent agreement, police officers will have immediate access to the records of 8,000 Mecklenburg criminals under DCC supervision including the warrants for probation violations. For their part, probation and parole officers who became swamped in the 1980s with paperwork will now be taking to the streets, oftentimes, riding with police officers to get to know them and the neighborhoods they patrol. Together, the officers will conduct curfew checks and home visits. Criminals being paroled from Mecklenburg Correctional Center will be picked up by both a police and a probation officer. Probation and parole officers will be assigned to work in police patrol districts or out of police satellite stations.
Similar programs exist in North Carolina and other parts of the country.