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City of McMinnville Police Department and Yamhill County Sheriff's Office, Oregon Select VisionAIR for Management of Public Safety Records.


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CASTLE HAYNE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2003

VisionAIR Signs Multi-jurisdictional Contract with

City of McMinnville McMinnville, city (1990 pop. 17,894), seat of Yamhill co., NW Oreg.; inc. 1876. It is a trade and processing center in the fertile Willamette valley. Foods, textiles, and building materials are produced, and there are wineries. Linfield College is in McMinnville.  Police Department and

Yamhill The code name for the 64-bit extensions to 32-bit Intel CPUs (x86). See Intel 64.  County Sheriff's Office

VisionAIR(R), a leading provider of public safety and criminal justice software, today announced that it has signed a multi-jurisdictional contract with the City of McMinnville Police Department and Yamhill County Sheriff's Office in Oregon Oregon, city, United States
Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products.
 to provide a fully integrated law enforcement records management system (VisionRMS(TM)), including the Master Name Historical Summary (VisionMNHS(TM)) reference database, and field-based reporting capability (VisionPAPERLESS(TM)). VisionAIR has an existing contract with Newberg Police Department, also in Yamhill County.

Yamhill County stretches over 718 square miles A square mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a square with sides of length one mil. A mil is one thousandth of an international inch. This unit of area is usually used in specifying the area of the cross section of a wire or cable.  and has a population of 84,992. The City of McMinnville, located within Yamhill County, has a population of 26,499. Under the terms of its contract with VisionAIR, the City of McMinnville Police Department purchased VisionRMS and VisionMNHS. Yamhill County Sheriff's Office purchased VisionRMS, VisionPAPERLESS and VisionMNHS.

VisionRMS facilitates the management of vital, agency-specific records, including files, master indexes, case management records, incident and arrest records, evidence/property records, field interviews and juvenile custody records. With VisionAIR's Master Name Historical Summary methodology, department personnel will have a quick, low-risk, simplified way of accessing legacy data for improved decision-making decision-making,
n the process of coming to a conclusion or making a judgment.

decision-making, evidence-based,
n a type of informal decision-making that combines clinical expertise, patient concerns, and evidence gathered from
. In addition, VisionAIR's paperless reporting application will allow officers at Yamhill County Sheriff's Office to enter incident reports from the field directly into laptop computers A portable computer that has a flat LCD screen and usually weighs less than eight pounds. Often called just a "laptop," it uses batteries for mobile use and AC power for charging the batteries and desktop use. Today's high-end laptops provide all the capabilities of most desktop computers. .

"Our goal is to provide a safe community through the professional delivery of police services and by partnering with our citizens. We want to support our department with technology that can help them accomplish these goals," said Stephanie Stocks, Support Services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services  Division Commander for the City of McMinnville Police Department. "We considered solutions from several vendors and finally selected VisionAIR's technology because of the fact that it interfaces well with our current CAD CAD: see computer-aided design.


(Computer-Aided Design) Using computers to design products. CAD systems are high-speed workstations or desktop computers with CAD software.
 system, as well as with the other area users with whom we share information."

"Yamhill County Sheriff's office purchased VisionAIR's software because our current provider, Regional Automated au·to·mate  
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates

v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.

2.
 Information Network, (RAIN), will no longer be providing service at the end of June, 2003. The City of Newberg is currently using the VisionAIR system and with the addition of the City of McMinnville and the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office, the entire county will be served by the same provider. This will help to ensure information sharing See data conferencing.  capabilities," said Sheriff Jack Crabtree of Yamhill County. "Our goal is to use the software to share vital information among our jurisdictions for improved law enforcement."

"The nation's heightened focus on security has spurred public safety and criminal justice agencies to recognize the importance of being able to share critical information across jurisdictions," said Dan Crawford Dan Crawford may refer to:
  • Dan Crawford (basketball referee)
  • Dan Crawford (missionary), a Scottish missionary in Africa
, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of VisionAIR. "In this case, VisionAIR technology can be used throughout Yamhill County and its police departments, such as McMinnville and Newberg, to enable the sharing of vital crime and security information."

About VisionAIR

VisionAIR provides proven software solutions that enable public safety and criminal justice professionals to better serve their communities anytime, anywhere. Drawing on extensive industry experience, VisionAIR has developed the most comprehensive, seamlessly integrated product suite available, enabling public safety and criminal justice agencies to strengthen emergency response, improve community and officer safety, increase productivity and meet evolving requirements. VisionAIR is the only company that delivers the right information to the right people, within individual agencies and across multiple jurisdictions. With VisionAIR, agencies can easily capture, store, access and analyze large amounts of mission-critical data in real time, for improved decision-making. For more information, contact VisionAIR at 800-882-2108 or visit www.visionair.com.

Public Safety Suite(R) is a registered trademark. VisionAIR(R), VisionCAD(TM), VisionRMS(TM), VisionMOBILE(TM), VisionJAIL(TM), VisionFIRE(TM), VisionEMS(TM), VisionGEO(TM), VisionFORCE(TM), VisionPAPERLESS(TM) and VisionINFORM(TM) are trademarks of VisionAIR, Inc. Any other marks used belong to their respective owners.
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