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Field Training Officer Mike McQuoid CODY solution has delivered more complete, accurate and timely information that has made WFDW offcers more effective and the agency itself more responsive. "CODY has helped make this one of our biggest successes," Chief Bjork stated. Bringing Information Together The CODY RMS Anywhere (RMS) solution, coupled with a package of integrated interfaces, powered by CODY's disparate data integration platform, delivers more complete, accurate and timely information for WDFW offcers statewide. The CODY RMS Anywhere solution is comprised of two main modules: CODY Desktop™ provides the "in-house" RMS functionality needed for collecting and maintaining information previously kept in hardcopy fles, while CODY Express™ provides real-time "anywhere" RMS functionality for offcers in the feld. The solu- tion also facilitates the collection and sharing of information that was never available before from other agency and external data sources. That information can include photos and video, as well as text. In the CODY system, master name records on WDFW customers and contacts are linked to integrated components supporting incident reporting, citation tracking, property and evidence management, and other critical WDFW enforcement business processes. Information is entered once and sharable across the system. One-Stop Access Makes Offcers More Effective Most users access the RMS through CODY Express, a smart client solution designed and optimized for laptop/ tablet users over wireless networks (e.g. 3/4G, WiFi, etc.). CODY Express is deployed in the WDFW vehicles assigned to the agency's 140 feld-based law enforcement offcers. Information is accessed through the Internet using cellular communications over a secure network. With this new mobile solution, offcers have "one-stop" access to all the information they need, rather than having to search each database separately. They can query the records database, as well as state and federal databases, for information on a person or vehicle, complete incident reports and manage records electronically and remotely in the feld. The CODY system puts "data at their fngertips," according to Chief Bjork. "It is like having a full RMS system in your mobile unit." Mobile users, like Detective Lenny Hahn, agree: "I love having everything in one place. You capture more information and it's a real time saver especially in writing incident reports." Detective Hahn points to a recent case, where using the new system "saved me about 20 hours." Having access to information helps www.lawandordermag.com 21