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Police Officers in Balitmore will now be sporting Blackberries to get their job done. The city will be using $5.3 million in federal stimulus money to make this new plan work. The Baltimore PD is hoping to ue Blackberries to get the latest information on warrants and be more efficient in doing their jobs.

“In the last 15 years in domestic law enforcement, we’ve trained cops around their vehicle. We’ve made their vehicle their mobile office. Except that now, they don’t leave the office,” Bealefeld said. “This Pocket Cop will help move them away from that car and break that tether.”

Bealefeld has urged his officers to repair relationships with residents of the city’s poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods, who are often reluctant to cooperate with police. Baltimore has an entrenched illegal drug trade and remains one of the nation’s most violent big cities despite a 20-year low in homicides last year.

This sounds like a wonderful idea, especially in a city that could use alternative methods in fighting crime. At the same time, if this program needs to work, the Police Department better monitor the activities of the Blackberries of these cops. You wouldn’t want them texting on the job while crimes are committed left and right.

(Via Businessweek)


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