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Platte County Sheriff’s Office wins approval for records and personnel software, orders fiber; reports 14 weekend impaired-driving arrests
Summary
The county approved a three-year PowerDMS contract and a Spectrum fiber upgrade for the sheriff’s office; sheriff’s staff also reported 14 arrests during a St. Patrick’s Day enforcement operation and described training and testing capacity for drug-impairment investigations.
The Platte County Commission on March 17 approved a three-year contract for PowerDMS software (contracted via NeoGov) for the Platte County Sheriff’s Office and separately approved a Spectrum fiber Internet service agreement for the sheriff’s Plaza Circle facility.
Captain Joe Shanks told commissioners the PowerDMS suite will consolidate disparate systems used by the sheriff’s office and add electronic timekeeping, an early-warning/intervention tool, internal-investigation documentation, mental-health networking and policy dissemination. "This allows us to leverage data collected in different sources to aggregate it and pull data out," he said.
Shanks told the commission the three-year contract totals $177,344.40; the first-year cost was identified in the record as about $58,078.80 with year-two and year-three amounts planned in future budgets. The auditor certified encumbered funds for 2025 were available, the record shows.
The commission also approved a Spectrum fiber service agreement for the sheriff’s office; the 2025 cost shown in the record is $7,191.
Separately in staff announcements, Sheriff Holland reported on traffic enforcement tied to St. Patrick’s Day. The department partnered with regional agencies and, despite winter weather during part of the enforcement window, recorded 14 arrests during Saturday night into early Sunday morning operations. The sheriff’s office said roughly half of the arrests were alcohol-related DWIs, with other arrests involving nonalcohol drug intoxication driving offenses; the department also cited a felony pursuit connected to one arrest.
Sheriff staff described ongoing training to detect and process drug-impaired driving, including drug recognition experts in the department and deputies training as phlebotomists to draw blood for BWI enforcement when breath testing is refused.
Ending: With the technology and connectivity contracts approved, the sheriff’s office said it expects to consolidate recordkeeping, implement electronic timekeeping and continue interagency enforcement and training efforts.
