SMPD blue

摘要

A high-speed pursuit along the 101 Peninsula ends in a San Mateo neighborhood where the suspect abandons his car and disappears on foot. A San Mateo police officer responding to the call runs the suspect's plates and brings up a photograph on his dash-mounted Panasonic Tough Book. The California Highway Patrol officer who started the pursuit identifies the suspect from the picture. Then the San Mateo Police Department officer blasts the image to all ' patrol cars on duty, and the suspect is picked up off the streets 5 minutes later. Until July, the SMPD's dash-mounted computers could only download small amounts of text, painfully slowly over a data radio network. And forget about mug shots, photos from the state Department of Motor Vehicles or other bandwidth-heavy images. For those, officers had to return to the station and download them off wired computers.