Dublin State Patrol gets new Patrol Car Technology

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Georgia State Patrol has started the switch to a new computer-based dispatch system designed to save money and help troopers with routine traffic stops. Troop F, which is based in Dublin and covers twenty counties in Central Georgia, is training its troopers this week to use the system.

Trooper First Class Jonathan Foskey says the new system includes a laptop for each patrol car, giving troopers instant access to tag numbers, registrations, and records without having to radio in to a dispatch center.

“It’s alleviated me having to put pen to paper,” Foskey says. “I’ve been able to issue citations with it. Warnings with it. Any type of crash reports with it.”

While Foskey says the new computers make his job a little easier, he says what is more important to him is peace of mind. He says the computers are equipped with a GPS, which shows the locations of every trooper at all times.

“If I call for help, and they may not know exactly where I am, they can look at the screen and know exactly how to get to me,” Foskey says.

He says troopers are not the only ones who will benefit from this technology. Drivers can look forward to shorter stop times, reduced wait times, and improved traffic advisories.

Dan Brown, with the State Department of Public Safety, says he expects eight-hundred thirty new laptops to be in use statewide by next fall. He says this should cut down on forty-thousand man hours per year.

“We’re not spending time driving to and from the post. We’re not spending time at the post, ” Brown says. “We’re actually saving those dollars and putting them back to work in what we do, and that’s saving lives.”

Brown says the system has been in the works for two year, and the project will be paid for with state funds as well as federal Homeland Security funds.