Centurion Warrants
This software was designed to simplify the process of obtaining search warrants to make it more efficient for the officer, the deputy, or the detective as well as the courts and the judges. This technology will benefit communities, police agencies, and courts simultaneously.
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Better Faster Stronger
The 21st Century Policing Model calls for the use of improved technology. As part of national standards, the issue of technology’s impact on privacy concerns should be addressed in accordance with protections provided by constitutional law. Though all constitutional guidelines must be maintained in the performance of law enforcement duties, the legal framework (warrants, etc.) should continue to protect law enforcement access to data obtained from cell phones, social media, GPS, and other sources, allowing officers to detect, prevent, or respond to crime.
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Agency Benefits
The more efficient warrant writing becomes the easier it is to get a warrant in front of a judge. The easier the process becomes the more warrants will be written by law enforcement in the field. This ensures the search is not in violation of the 4th Amendment, and also reduces the amount of evidence subject to being thrown out, challenged, or dismissed. This will in turn increase sentencing in crime and plea agreements. The technology helps officers hold people accountable and will deter crime in the future.
This will significantly reduce the amount of overtime and call out for police agencies. It will also help reduce man hours for the officers, deputies and detectives doing the job.
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Courts
The courts will benefit from this technology through efficiencies also. The review process, the striking and or change process will make the whole endeavor paperless until the officer has to provide a copy at the scene or for the suspect. They will also be able to track and store the information more efficiently thus saving the courts time and money.
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Cost Efficient
Scenario: Armed Robbery Call Out
(If the warrant is written in 2 hours by the detective, which is half of the normal average, then the following costs would apply.)
Patrol officers arrive on scene at an armed robbery. The victims working at a store were robbed at gunpoint, and officers in the area pick up the vehicle and follow it back to a residence. The two suspects exit the vehicle and get inside the residence before officers are able to arrest them. The house is surrounded and eventually the suspects are called out of the house. Detectives are called out to assume the investigation. A search warrant will be needed to obtain items from the suspects, the vehicle and the residence. Several officers will have to stand by with the suspects, as well as the residence while detectives conduct their investigation. The officers will wait approximately 1 hour before detective arrival, with a 30 minute briefing of the basic information they will start getting relieved. The investigation at the house and in the vehicle won’t be able to start until the warrant is signed. The suspects won’t be able to be booked until the warrant is signed either. The clock is ticking.
2 Officers on scene at the house - on straight time
2 Officers standing by with prisoners – on straight time
4 Detectives – on overtime
1 Original Scene
1 Warrant
2 for Interviews and Bookings
1 Sergeant - on overtime
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Scenario Cost:
4 Officers on Straight Time @ $60 = $240
4 Detectives on overtime @ $75 = $300
1 Sergeant on overtime @ $100 = $100
Total Cost for 1 Warrant = $640
Unless you look to the future where the patrol officers, who had the information before calling out detectives could have written the warrant, then you would have saved $360.00 dollars on the waiting, and 2 to 2.5 hours of detectives’ time to start processing the car and the house. If you calculate the savings in this case it would have been between $1000.00 and $1640.00 in savings for this scenario.
Smaller agencies with less resources will save critical man hours by reducing the amount of time it takes the solo detective or most experienced officer to complete this investigation properly.