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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 Bill 1735 is providing approximately $215,800 to fund the first year’s purchase and hosting costs for agencies selected to participate; Mesa would use that funding to implement Peregrine against the department’s RMS and CAD systems for the pilot.
Staff cautioned that any cross‑agency data sharing or broader regional links would require additional memorandums of understanding and policy review. Phelps and IT staff said Peregrine typically ingests copies of the relevant data into a vendor cloud (hosted in AWS), and that what fields are shared and with whom would be decided through future MOUs.
Council members asked about ongoing maintenance costs, whether the system could help public‑records processing, and whether the city would ever host the product in‑house. Staff said maintenance/headline subscription costs if continued beyond the pilot could be in the range of the initial purchase price (staff cited roughly $215,800 as an annual estimate for the connected sources in an ongoing deployment), but that future funding is not yet secured.
What happens next: Items 7a (state funding acceptance) and 7b (purchase agreement) were presented for council consideration and will appear on the regular council agenda; staff said year‑2 funding possibilities depend on state allocations and program continuation.
Key details and numbers: Senate Bill 1735 funding for year‑one purchase roughly $215,800; pilot scope limited to existing police RMS and CAD data; cross‑agency sharing would require an MOU and policy review.
