KBIA Local
(2008-09-12)
COLUMBIA, MO
(KBIA) -
The Columbia Police Department plans to get a new system to track complaints.
It is currently done manually. When there is a complaint, an on-duty officer types in the information to the Police Department's record system and writes it down on a notepad as well. The Professional Standards Unit, built to oversee the Police Department, hopes to get a new software program and to eliminate manual record keeping. Rex Cambell is the chair of the citizen oversight committee. He says updated the updated system is long overdue. "Right now they're doing it all by paper by mechanical means and it's inefficient and it's hard to keep tracks of all of these various complaints exactly where they're at."
According to the Police Department, the new software is a more effective way to do instrumental statistic analysis which is necessary to complete mandatory reviews.
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