"It is by far one of the greatest evolutions" | A new tech platform is helping GPD solve crime in seconds

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The Greensboro Police Department has joined forces with ForceMetrics to easily access data to crack down on crime and better handle calls for service.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Police departments are always looking for new tools to fight crime, whether it be better patrol vehicles, drones or even body cameras to keep the public safe. But there is a new platform Greensboro Police Lt. Ryan Todd said outshines them all.

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"This is a far quieter but more powerful tool," Lt. Todd said. "In the past two decades of doing this job, it is by far one of the greatest evolutions that a police department will have ever taken technologically to better service their residents."

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Lt. Todd said joining forces helped one of their detectives go from spending 17 hours searching through data for information on someone involved in a homicide, to finding answers in seconds.

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"When we showed the detective ForceMetrics they found the answer in 7 seconds.," Lt. Todd said. "You can only imagine how much good that would've done had this been something we incorporated years ago."

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