This system should interface
with 911 and other law enforcement agencies. However most other local cities, and
municipalities use "Visual Alert® Records Management" system, and
they all interface together. Furthermore, Total Enforcement comes preloaded with all New York data that must be
removed before city police could add anything of PA!
To date the city has spent
$526,616 on equipment and training. The rest ($273,384) God only knows, but the
problem with this "NEW RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM" is that even though
the city paid over a half a million dollars for this system it is not working
correctly as of today, and it would seem the city could care less!
City spokesman Drew Mc-Laugh-lin said officials
are working with Frontier Communications, the city’s Wi-Fi provider, to address
the connectivity issues and expect to have the problems resolved in the next
few months.
“The strength of the signal is intermittent,”
Mc-Laugh-lin said. “If the Wi-Fi is coming in and out, that’s not reliable.
We’re trying to solidify it so there’s never an issue.”
Mc-Laugh-lin said officials believe the problem
can be resolved by attaching an antenna to the cruisers, that would strengthen
the signal. The city is in negotiations with Frontier regarding that matter.
- Just a thought, but if Frontier could make it work since 2008 perhaps it’s time to drop them!
- Also we all know just how fast technology changes, that being said would this still be the best system in today's market?
“It’s one of those things with their gear and how they do their job in driving the vehicle,” Mc-Laugh-lin said. “It was an unforeseen complication we didn’t know until it was installed.”
- It’s like seeing the King texting at council meetings. It’s just one of those things with his gear and how he doesn’t do his job!
Officer Phil Myers, president of the police
officers union, said officers are anxious to get the system running. “It will definitely make it a lot easier to do a
report on the road instead of having to come back,” Myers said.
- Don’t hold your breath Phil it’s only been in the works since 2008!!!
More to the Story:
History of Total Enforcement in
Luzerne County:
"Between March 2006 andOctober 2007 - Former Luzerne County Commissioner Greg Skrepenak, Deputy Chief Clerk Bill Brace, housing authority board
member William Maguire and Human Resources Director Douglas Richards,
who were incarcerated for corruption were involved in attempting to purchase a
law enforcement records management system from two former New York City police
officers named Grub and Luongo. Maguire, who was a law-enforcement consultant
to the county government at the time, told the FBI that one of the former New
York officers paid county officials thousands of dollars during a trip to New
York to discuss an initiative to develop a county-wide computerized
crime-reporting system."
This system is called "Total Computer A.K.A Total Enforcement". By the
way the county never bought it, but the city did.
One of the two former New York
City police officers who formed the corporation, William Grub, wined and dined
county officials on trips to Manhattan and gave each of them New York City
Police Department key chains attached to small boxes stuffed with up to $4,000,
according to a pre-sentence report prepared by federal probation officials in
Richards' case. Click here, Documents: Ex-county officials received gifts from ex-NYC officers
Just another coincidence?
Now I call your attention to the missing credit card statements that the city claimed never existed, but the average Joe obtained via subpoena. In the event you forgot click here for They do exist!
The August 2006 statement of for former cityadministrator J.J. Murphy shows 3 rooms were charged at PARK CENTRAL HOTEL FD NEW YORK NY, which by the way was also the same hotel that Former Luzerne County Human Resources Director Douglas Richards stayed at when he went to NYC (click here to see county bill). After digging further, Joe obtained receipts concerning this charge. That shows who went to NYC.
On that trip:
- J.J. Murphy
- King Tommy
- Police Chief Gerry Dessoye
- Police Officer Matthew Stash
In 2008 - A grant totaling $500,000 was given to
the City of Wilkes-Barre from "Casino Gaming Money" for a county-wide
law enforcement records management system. "Total Enforcement". Click here for 2008 State Awards Gaming Money
May 2011 - "Mayor Thomas M. Leighton
announced Tuesday, May 10, the start of the next technological evolution of the
Wilkes-Barre Police Department.
The Records Management System [RMS] funded by a
$300,000 RMS grant secured by the city will transition the department to a
completely electronic records system." "Total Enforcement". Click here for 2011 City Press Release
Total Grants: $800,000
City Spent: $526,616
Missing: $273,384
- Bids??? Oh boy... who said bids?
- To date citizens have requested copies of the bids relating to Total Enforcement, and the city has not complied!!!!
This trip seems awfully coincidental to the trips of former Luzerne County Commissioner Greg Skrepenak don’t ya think?
Especially considering the city bought
the very same system that the former county commissioner got in trouble for
attempting to buy through the Bribe Process, not to be confused with a Bid
Process, which by the way was not followed either.
Breakdown obtained from Right to Know requests:
TOTAL ENFORCEMENT- Police Records
Management System
3/09/10 Quote from DELL - $394,665.00
1st Phase- $ 95,845.45
2nd Phase - $ 289,819.56 Training
3rd Phase - $ 9,000.00
Checks with invoices received for system:
DELL
$ 22,544.97
$ 13,990.14
$ 162,097.25
$ 292,899.55
= $ 491,531.91
AND
Invoices received for system with NO
checks included:
DELL
$ 1,878.22
$ 745.36
= $494,155.49
Checks with invoices received for
system:
LIGHTSPEED
6/29/ 11 $ 9,000.00
FRONTIER
6/27/11 $ 24,820.00
Are these yearly fees ?
The city also pays a Licensing fee yearly.
L-TRON- Barcode Scanner
$ 1,264.40
Included in with invoices received
for system:
3/16/10 For Cruisers ( NOT BEING USED) as of today.
Computer Mounts
5- Impala -$ 4,054.20
10- Impala- $ 8,054.30
1- Caprice/ Crown Vic - $ 805.43
2- Durango- $ 1,612.64
Installation fee for 18 cruiser laptop mounts - $8,282.16
12 Laptops for cars -$ 15,698.88
Total for cars = $ 38,507.61
Wake Up Wilkes Barre
Source:
- Police car info system is unused
- Richards' filing offers closer look at scope of corruption
- Documents: Ex-county officials received gifts from ex-NYC officers
- the missing credit card statements
- Total Computer A.K.A Total Enforcement
- http://www.totalenforcement.com/
- W-B touts new technology, guns for police
- New Records Management System for City
- Wilkes-Barre, PA Eager to Implement the Total Enforcement
- State Awards Gaming Money
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ReplyDeleteInstalling antennas on police vehicles will prove to be a complete waste of effort (and more taxpayer dollars).
ReplyDeleteThe root cause of the technical issue here is NOT on the receiving end, but rather the transmission.
If Leighton had chosen to leverage a solution that used WiMAX technology (which, at the time, Intel would have contributed 50% of the design & implementation costs) instead of the much less-powerful WiFi, the range of the transmission signal would be measured in miles . . . not hundreds of yards.
Another clear indication of the ineptitude of our city "leaders". Leighton was informed of this as far back as 2005, yet chose to ignore it.
Just to be fair to King, would Intel have contributed to his campaign?
DeletePut this information out to the press. Both the Citizens Voice, and the Times Leader could reach more readers than on this website.
ReplyDeleteYou have to wonder how much more crap the public will tolerate before they say enough !!!!
Both editors subscribe to Wake Up Wilkes Barre, and now have all the info as written, so we would hope the also conduct an investigation!!! Thank you
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