A majority (80%) of law enforcement professionals are concerned with recruiting, staffing, and employee retention. With police departments facing unprecedented staffing shortages, many are turning to technology or software solutions to help train or support staff, augment or streamline manual or laborious tasks, and even fill gaps in fleet deployment and servicing needs. And, instead of assigning laptops, tablets, or two-in-one computing devices for teams to share, more departments are deploying them to individual officers for greater productivity benefits.
In the field, an officer or first responder’s inability to access critical information/data or a computer that functions when and where they need it presents a dire outcome. It inhibits their ability to effectively perform the job whether they are conducting routine traffic stops or responding to emergency calls. More than a third (38%) of law enforcement professionals spend two to four hours per day on paperwork. The efficiency boost gained by digitizing these processes through features like autofill, dictation, voice-enabled command, and report standardization affords more time to spend building connections within the community while increasing productivity and accuracy.