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Go to the next meeting of your city council and ask the following questions: 1. Is the city or county public safety system physically protected? 2. Are your dispatch and emergency service systems open to communication across political/service boundaries (can your neighboring county's system dispatch or post events to yours?) 3. Are the tools provided to your agency officer's report oriented or analysis oriented? It makes a great deal of difference if for example the field reporting system is designed to report information for the executive information system or the state or federal agencies versus being a feedback tool for the officer to analyze a situation and respond. 4. Are the public safety systems capable of using XML to pass and receive messages, archive situational data, and create multiple views based on the role of the user? The answer to most of these questions will be no. Given what we know about interoperation and mission critical systems, you should decide if you are satisfied with that answer. The vast majority of public safety systems are like Victorian bathrooms: ornate, large, expensive, hand-carved, customized, and inefficient. When they back up, you get a stink. Those systems are now front line C5I systems and they are the means by your local governments coordinate in an emergency. Be certain they work as well as you need them to. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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