CompuDyne's Public Safety and Justice Unit, Tiburon, Installs Public Safety Automation System for the Kansas City, MO Fire Department.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- CompuDyne Corporation (NASDAQ:CDCY) an industry leader in sophisticated security products, integration and technology for the public security markets, successfully completed the installation of a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Records Management System (RMS) for the city of Kansas City Fire Department. The system is the first phase of an $8.6 million contract to provide new public safety systems for the city's police and fire departments. CompuDyne's Public Safety & Justice unit, Tiburon, is an industry-leading provider of automated public safety and justice systems to meet the demanding and complex needs of law enforcement, fire & rescue, corrections and justice environments.

The new CAD system replaces an unreliable, antiquated system, and will allow dispatchers to respond to and manage citizens' requests for fire and rescue services more efficiently. "Installing a reliable system is critical to any public safety operation," says Rick Brisbin, Project Manager for the city of Kansas City. "We have not experienced any downtime since we took the system live." A comprehensive mapping component pinpoints the exact location of a citizen's call for service. The map provides dispatchers the ability to quickly assess the location of the incident and provide responding firefighters directions or details of the building, if required. With a couple of keystrokes, the new CAD system automatically pinpoints the caller's location, recommends appropriate apparatus to respond, alerts the fire stations and tracks the details of the fire response.

Records automation is not new to the Fire Department, which currently processes more than 50,000 fire and rescue incident reports annually. Yet, the department needed a more robust, fully integrated system to centralize and automate fire incident, personnel and training, and equipment inspections information that used to reside on separate, disparate databases or in paper files.

During a subsequent phase of this multi-million dollar project, devices that track the exact location of a vehicle and assist in determining the shortest route to an incident will be installed in Kansas City's fire apparatus.

Later in the project, Tiburon and Kansas City will implement a comprehensive CAD, RMS and Automated Field Reporting system for the Police Department. "The installation of the fire dispatch and records management system is the beginning of an enterprise-wide public safety automation system for the city's police and fire departments," says Brisbin. "Sharing information between police and fire is crucial to rapid responses, and is the big payoff of this new system for the departments."

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