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Cancel that next bank job, Toronto criminals. Pretty soon there will be an electronic officer on the force and he can track your every movement.
No, this isn't the gun-toting metallic warrior from Robocop, but a comprehensive crime-reporting application. The Enterprise Case and Occurrence Processing System, or eCops, will be deployed in the Toronto Police Service on IBM DB2 architecture before the end of 2001.
Officers will have access to a larger and more comprehensive set of case- and suspect-related information, and the system will store data for a variety of investigative police units such as homicide, sexual assault, emergency task force and traffic operations.
On the back end, more complex statistical and analytical information will be available to officers, including occurrence and arrest reports, case preparation, briefs for Crown attorneys, crime analysis, pattern recognition and mapping of modus operandi,...