With cellular boost, a longer arm of the law

Apr 27, 2011 | With cellular boost, a longer arm of the law

Tools to amplify signals bring mobile data to patrol cars in a sprawling Arizona county

By William Jackson Apr 27, 2011

The history of the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office goes back to 1864, and until recently its paper-based records system had not changed very much since those days. But when Sheriff Steve Waugh took office in 2005, he wanted to bring it up to date.

“One of the things he was adamant about was that we were going to migrate to a mobile data environment,” said Lt. Brian Hunt, who heads the department’s Technical Services Bureau.

That was easier said than done. With 8,100 square miles, Yavapai County, which stretches from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to the suburbs of Phoenix, is larger than Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut combined, and larger than either Hawaii, New Jersey or Massachusetts. “You have a large coverage area and many challenges that Mother Nature has thrown our way that make communications challenging,” Hunt said.

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