What I found when we looked closer
Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Department is a regional department headquartered in Stevens, serving several municipalities in the farm country of northern Lancaster County instead of a single town.
A regional model means one team answering to several communities, covering a lot of rural ground, and keeping track of cases spread across the whole service area.
Following one report through the building
The first thing we do with a new department is trace where a report goes after the officer hits submit. Here, it passes through 3 hands:
- 1Officer
- 2Sergeant
- 3Lancaster County district attorney
Every one of those readers needs the same facts from the first draft. That is what shaped what we built.
What we built for them
Searchable footage keeps records consistent and findable wherever in the region the call happened.
What we're watching
These are the signals that will tell us whether it's working here:
- Time to locate key statements
- Consistency of records across municipalities
Figures on this page come from the department's own published materials. We only publish Code Four results after the department reviews them.
