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Good Police Work and VisionTEK Combine for Success.


SUPERIOR, Colo. -- The Douglas County Douglas County is the name of twelve counties in the United States:
  • Douglas County, Colorado (Located in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area)
  • Douglas County, Georgia (Located in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area)
  • Douglas County, Illinois
  • Douglas County, Kansas
 Sheriff's Office is combining good police work with high-tech tools from VisionTEK, Inc., and the effort is paying off. Two recent incidents demonstrate how getting timely information into the right hands yields real results for public safety.

While reviewing data on a string of thefts in the area, Douglas County Sheriff's Office Crime Analyst, Michelle Kennedy, recognized the likeliness of a potential repeat attempt occurring that evening. Using VisionTEK's UNITY(R) system, Kennedy broadcasted information about her hunch hunch  
n.
1. An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose.

2. A hump.

3. A lump or chunk: "She . . .
 directly to the patrol vehicles. Based on that information, a DCSO DCSO Defense Communications System Organization
DCSO Defense Commercial Systems Office
 Sergeant decided to patrol the area, and came across a suspicious vehicle. When the vehicle attempted to flee the area, it crashed and one suspect was apprehended at the site. After an intensive ground search, a second suspect was arrested. Stolen property was recovered and the string of criminal activity ceased.

In another incident, the DCSO and FBI were investigating a bank robbery The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank.
 that occurred in Douglas County. After acquiring a photo of the missing vehicle and distributing it via the UNITY system, DCSO officers recovered the vehicle within just a few hours and turned it over to the crime lab. Some useful information was obtained for the FBI's ongoing investigation and the vehicle was later returned to its owners.

"Douglas County and VisionTEK win again," said Division Chief Mike Coleman Mike Coleman is the voice actor for Cannonball on . See Also
 of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. "You have to love the great results this kind of efficiency brings...UNITY makes traditional methods of broadcasting a bulletin no longer an obstacle."

VisionTEK's UNITY system is installed with Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical agencies throughout Colorado and in 7 other states. UNITY is designed to enable data interoperability between public safety agencies. It provides the agencies the ability to share real-time information within, or across, jurisdictional boundaries. With UNITY, information can be distributed through a wireless system to one or many users, based on an individual's first responder first responder First response personnel Emergency medicine A person employed in the public sector–EMT, fire fighter, police, volunteer EMS–whose duties include provision of immediate medical care in the event of an emergency; FRs have basic emergency  role, allowing agencies to transmit data to first responders in an entire county, state or even the nation. In addition, UNITY can provide authorized users with access to local, state and federal databases, including access to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC NCIC National Crime Information Center
NCIC National Cancer Institute of Canada
NCIC North Carolina Industrial Commission
NCIC National Cartographic Information Center
NCIC National Cancer Information Center (American Cancer Society) 
).

About VisionTEK, Inc.

VisionTEK, Inc. is a leading provider of interactive mobile data software for law enforcement and other public safety agencies. VisionTEK's clients include: Colorado State Patrol, Colorado Bureau of Investigations, Tulsa (OK) Police Department, Lee County (FL) Sheriff's Office, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  (CA) Police Department and Bernalillo County (NM) Sheriff's Office. Information about UNITY and VisionTEK's other products can be found online at www.visiontekinc.com.

VisionTEK and UNITY are trademarks of VisionTEK, Inc.
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