Ferguson Police Department Receives $100,000+ Law Enforcement Software Donation from LEFTA Systems

The City of Ferguson and the Ferguson Police Department have partnered with the leading provider of law enforcement software, LEFTA Systems. LEFTA Systems’ software solutions are used by hundreds of agencies across the nation and will now be used by Ferguson Police Department. This new technology, worth over $100,000 that LEFTA Systems is donating to Ferguson Police Department, will assist the department in providing the community with the ability to stay connected with the department, provide more transparency to the community, and enable the department to be less burdened by allowing them to focus more on conducting good community policing.

The Ferguson Police Department will use four (4) software applications by LEFTA Systems

The LEFTA Field Training Software

Used for newly hired police officers to document the many reports that are required while a new officer is in the field training program as well as on probation. The software also easily identifies any issues that a new recruit may be having and intervene quickly when additional or specialized training is needed, or when reevaluation of retaining the new recruit is necessary.

This technology will enable the FPD to:

• More effectively monitor newly hired police officers and manage the many different training documents associated with new hires.
• Easily identify any issues that a new recruit may be having and intervene quickly when additional or specialized training is needed, or when reevaluation of retaining the new recruit is necessary.
• Monitor training officers and help ensure that assessment of trainees is not biased and that they are not scored differently based on race, gender, or age.

The METR Training Records Management Software

Will keep track of any and all training records and certifications required for officers, including community policing; bias-free policing; stop, search and arrest training; First Amendment training; Use of Force training; and CIT trainings.

This application manages employee training records for every type of training that an employee receives. FPD Training Coordinators are tasked with ensuring that all training is completed as required and that documentation is maintained that allows analysis by:

• Training type, including: Community Policing Training; Bias-Free Policing; Stop, Search, and Arrest Training; First Amendment Training; Use of Force Training; CIT Training
• Training date
• Training source
• Individual officer

Keeping track of such requirements is a very time consuming and requires great resources.  METR training records software ensures that all training is documented in one system, and will allow the FPD Training Coordinators to run training expiration and re-take audits.

FACTS Use of Force Reporting Software

Allows the agency to collect more information on how officers use force, allowing for more than 160 statistical reports to be generated when an officer is involved in a use of force incident, including racial correlations between officers and suspects, what type of force officers are using, how often suspects have a mental illness, or how often the suspect or officer are injured during an incident.

FACTS Use of Force software will collect information about how Ferguson police officers use force. When an officer is involved in a use of force incident, a FACTS report will be completed. This is a very comprehensive use of force report that allows FDP to generate over 160 statistical reports including racial correlations between officers and suspects, what type of force officers are using, how often suspects have a mental illness or how often the suspect or officer are injured during an incident. The system also offers an early warning system which flags officers after they’ve been involved in a certain number of use of force incidents, thus alerting supervisors and allowing them to monitor these officers more closely. Information collected by FACTS allows the FPD leadership to identify issues such as the need for additional department-wide or individual use of force training and/or use of force policy changes.

PASS Profile Accountability Software

Provides a level of transparency concerning how officers make contact with citizens and to ensure that profiling is not a factor.

PASS Profiling Accountability Software will enable FPD to enact protections against bias-based profiling. PASS is a field investigation report application originally developed for California’s Profiling Law AB 953: The Racial and Identity Profiling Act. PASS profiling software keeps track of statistical data about an individual’s race, gender and age, as well as other characteristics and circumstances involved in an officer stop by providing statistics about:

• Time, date, and location of the stop.
• The reason for the stop.
• Result of the stop, such as, no action, warning, citation, property seizure, or arrest.
• If a warning or citation was issued.
• If an arrest was made, the offense charged.
• Perceived race or ethnicity, gender, and approximate age of the person stopped.
• Actions taken by the officer during the stop.

All of these software applications will allow the Ferguson Police Department to be very forthcoming and transparent as it pertains to servicing our community and any other relevant inquiries concerning the functionality of the department. Additional information will be provided at the aforementioned Press Conference. If additional information is needed, please contact Chief Delrish Moss or myself at 314-522-3100 or[email protected] or [email protected].