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The Atlantic Police Department’s in house computer system consists of a server with a mirrored hard drive and tape back up, with four desk top P. C. ’s that are net worked to each other. This net working has a radio data link to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, where our records are stored in a shared county-wide database, which is on the Sheriff’s AS400 mainframe computer. The shared database gives us access to not only our own records but to those of all law enforcement in Cass County. The records which include calls for service, incidents, arrests, jail, gun permits, warrants etc. are available to our officers at all times through this system.

Our in house computer system also does digital camera processing with color prints, and picture authentication soft ware, as well as a C. D. writer for picture storage.

Equipment inside the patrol cars: 

  1. This is the control head, which operates all the different functions of the car video camera.           
  2. This is the video camera, which records the audio and video when officers are conducting vehicle stops.
  3. This is a small TV screen, which can be used to insure camera is properly aimed, and for officers to view video.
  4. This is the car Police Radio, which has six different banks of frequencies, each bank scans sixteen different frequencies. The radio is used to monitor and communicate with area police, sheriff’s departments, Iowa State Patrol and area ambulance services in southwest Iowa.
  5. This is a laptop computer and is used by officers to issue traffic citations to violators and for entering the data of drivers/owners involved in motor vehicle accidents.
  6. This is the radar display, which is used to measure vehicle speeds.

Equipment in the vehicles not shown in the photographs are a Remington Model 870 pump 12 gauge shotgun, a hand held metal detector to search prisoners with, a window tint meter and an alcohol breath testing device.

Equipment carried in the trunks are: 

  1. M-14 semi automatic .308 caliber rifle
  2. This is a stinger spike system used to deflate car tires.
  3. First Aid supplies
  4. Fire extinguisher
  5. Equipment in the trunk not pictured are: measuring tapes for accident investigations and signal flares.

 



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Atlantic Police Dept.
23 East 4TH Street
Atlantic, Iowa 50022
email us at:  Atlantic Police Department
Phone 712-243-3512 and Fax 712-243-3514

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