Agency+Systems

In this unit we will discuss the concepts of operator security, the right to know and the need to know. Essentially, the purposes of those concepts are to maintain data security and individual privacy in government databases. We will spend a considerable amount of time talking about privacy and describing some of the ways users and policy makers should consider privacy. A primary concept for you is that a state or local law enforcement agency's Record Management System is an umbrella system that allows the capture of information for multiple sources; bridges the agency to outside sources of information; and, allows for different types of information queries. By and large, police data systems are relational databases. By placing information in tabular fields, agency employees can use the same data for multiple purposes. Data might be used for a single investigation, to speed the booking process of a multiple offender, to do crime analysis, or for an analysis of workload and deployment. All of these different purposes are possible because of the way in which police data is captured, organized and retained.
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