MT. PLEASANT -- New technology will soon help a northern Michigan community cut down on waste while helping increase communication across the state.
The Mt. Pleasant City Police Department will receive a technology award for $74,428 from the Office of Highway Safety Planning.
The funds will be used to purchase and implement a countywide Electronic Crash Capture system.
The grant will cover the whole cost of the purchase of the software, licensing, training of personnel, software configuration, maintenance, and installation of the system.
This grant will allow the Mt. Pleasant City Police Department, Central Michigan University Police Department, Isabella County Sheriff Department, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police Department, Shepherd Police Department and the Michigan State Police to electrically submit traffic crash reports to the State of Michigan.
Currently, Isabella County submits about 3,176 traffic crashes a year to the Michigan State Police.
This technology grant will build on the JAG grant received in October 2009 by continuing our goal of sharing information at a local and state level.
Police personnel will now be able to complete traffic crash reports in the patrol vehicles. This system allows the reports to be electronically submitted thus improving quality, uniformity, timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the reports. This will also give officers an opportunity to spend more time in their vehicles patrolling their communities thus keeping them safer. This technology will allow local agencies to analyze traffic crash data more effectively and efficiently so they can better patrol areas with high concentration of traffic crashes.
