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UNION CITY POLICE REPORTS AVAILABLE ON LINE
The Union City Police Department, in an effort to reduce the inconvenience to the victims of crime as well as those involved in traffic crashes, announces that effective immediately Motor Vehicle Crash Reports, and Criminal Incident Reports, are available to the public on the Internet.
In the past, one of the biggest hassles in being involved in a traffic crash, was the fact that often the parties involved had to wait some two to three business days to obtain a copy of the report. In addition, the motorist then had to take time from their day, during business hours, and go to the police station to obtain the report.
Now, the report is available as soon as it is completed and approved. In the vast majority of cases the report is available to the public within eight hours of the occurrence.
“To our knowledge, we are the first agency in Georgia to make this degree of access to reports available” says Chief of Police Michael Isome. “ The ability to lesson the inconvience to the involved parties of crashes or incidents was the major factor in instituting this system.” Isome continued.
Isome credits Assistant Chief Chuck Odom in spearheading the project.
Odom became aware of the system through working with traffic crash reconstruction software offered by Visual Statement of Canada.
According to Odom, Report Beam, a division of Visual Statement, had employed the product in Canada and in several states for access to crash reports. Odom approached the company about the possibility of expanding the system to include incident reports.
Within three days we were testing the system, and within two months it was fully operational” , Odom continued.
An additional benefit is the ability for the Police Department to generate data as to location and time of occurrence for both criminal incident and traffic crashes on a continuous basis. This allows for much more effective utilization of the departments resources.
Through multiple safeguards built into the system, only involved parties or their authorized representatives will have access to the reports. This is in order to comply with restrictions placed on the release of traffic crash reports under the Georgia Open Records Act.
CONTACT INFO: Sergeant George Louth
(770) 306-6849 ext: 393
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