Law Enforcement Justice Information System

Glenn Angstadt
LEJIS Steering Committee Tech Chair

LEJIS Introduction
Problem: Inability to share incident data
between police departments
1200+ police departments throughout Pennsylvania
using dozens of different CAD & RMS software

LEJIS Introduction
Project Goals
Increased Officer and Public Safety
Improved Decision Making Abilities at the Local Level
Reduction of Redundancy in Justice Information Handling

LEJIS Mission
To provide relevant data, in real time, to law enforcement
Agencies maintain their individual records management systems
(RMS)
Contributing agencies control data to be shared
Select data are automatically uploaded to central core server
Data is available for search only by authorized users.

LEJIS Introduction
2006-2007
2007-2009
2009-2011
2011-2012
2012-2015

Strategic Plan
Phase 2 Production Pilot
Phase 3 Expansion Production
Phase 4 Expansion across PA
Phase 5 Support and Maintenance

LEJIS Introduction
Project Governance
SEPA Regional Task Forces Public Safety Working Group
LEJIS Steering Committee
Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia,
Lehigh, Berks
Future partners include Allegheny and Northampton
Counties
Each County represented by Local PDs + County
District Attorneys, Sheriffs, Detectives, IT

Ex-officio members/partners = JNET, PA AGO, PA State

Police, Phila/Camden HIDTA

LEJIS - Approach
LEJIS = pointer index system like library card
catalog

Police Dept. A

Incident cards
Person cards
Vehicle cards
Property card

Data
LEJIS

Data

Police Dept. B

Data

DA/Sheriff

LEJIS - Approach
Existing RMS systems are modified to handle data submits
and queries
Departments keep and use their existing systems

Local control of data shares

Chief sets which crime categories to share
Command decides which incidents to submit

Transactional, not batch synchronization of LEJIS

As incident saved in RMS, it is shared with LEJIS

LEJIS RMS Integration (Input)

RMS User Interface does not change, 1 new button only

LEJIS RMS Integration (Search)

LEJIS search results presented no differently in RMS

LEJIS Status and Successes

Reporting and Evaluation Metrics
Police System Vendors participating = 6
Police Departments Integrated = over 380
Integration of Philadelphia Police Department = complete
Integration of Pittsburgh Bureau of Police = complete
Incident Records in LEJIS index = over 12,000,000
Roughly 900 searches/day conducted by end users

LEJIS Status and Successes

Reporting and Evaluation Metrics
Infrastructure supporting Commonwealth-wide adoption =
in progress
Consistent Success Stories from police Departments
Now supporting 30% of the municipal departments in PA
covering > 50% of the population
**LEJIS is now being used in nearly 2/3 of PAs counties**

LEJIS Lessons Learned

Police / IT partnership works
Working with the RMS vendors in baby-steps works
Persistent, stable JNET connectivity for each
department not widely available and time-consuming to
implement
Adoption = Peer pressure works
More difficult & expensive integrating the remaining
smaller departments than anticipated
Ongoing funding (budget line item)