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Mesa police seek state funding to pilot Peregrine search platform for records analysis
Summary
Mesa Police proposed a one‑year pilot of the Peregrine data‑search platform to make agency records more searchable and provide mapping and link analysis. Senate Bill 1735 provides roughly $215,800 for year‑one implementation; any cross‑agency sharing would require an MOU and later council approval for continued funding.
Mesa — Police officials asked the council to approve a one‑year pilot to implement Peregrine, a cloud‑hosted search and analytics platform that indexes records management (RMS) and CAD dispatch data to speed investigations and automate routine analyses.
Deputy Police Director Pat Phelps described the product as “a Google for cops,” saying it would not create new data but would surface and visualize existing records more quickly for detectives and analysts. Phelps said the state legislature’s Senate…
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