Government: Law Enforcement

Problem

Law Enforcement agencies face the burden of managing a quickly growing inventory of property and evidence without additional staffing. They are also challenged to find tracking automation that allows startup with a limited budget, but allows future expansion without starting over.

More and more, agencies are recognizing that to succeed they must automate and consolidate. Automating tracking of Property & Evidence and tracking of other Items with a single solution saves money.

Solution

FileTrail helps law enforcement agencies create automated and efficient processes for managing Property & Evidence and other Items. As a result chain-of-custody is documented, retrieval is timely, disposition is simplified, and operations can continue without the addition of staff.

Benefits

FileTrail has market-proven solutions that offer the robust functionality and the flexibility to meet the challenges faced by Law Enforcement today. Your FileTrail solution allows you to:

• Maintain un-alterable chain-of-custody.
• Ensure reliable and timely retrieval for court.
• Speed check-out and check-in.
• Document splitting and merging of evidence.
• Store and view electronic documents and photos.
• Control and document access to confidential material
• Document authenticity and integrity of evidence.
• Expand to track and manage files, documents, video, etc.

Features

Unique features of the FileTrail solution for Law Enforcement include:

• Easy-to-use browser-based user interface.
• Unlimited user-definable fields, searches, labels, and reports.
• Highly-configurable interface results in best-fit to each agency.
• Audit trails record chain-of-custody, data changes, etc.
• Configure and manage multiple file rooms and storage sites in multi-office implementations.
• Streamlines the search, request, retrieval, and delivery process.
• Integrated one-click email communication about Items.
• Provides complete security sub-system controlling access to functions and information.
• Integrated security leverages Windows authentication.
• Pure Web n-tier, scalable browser-based thin client architecture.
• Fully integrated bar coding, color coding and RFID technologies.
• Google-style location mapping for retrieval and delivery of Items.