AMARILLO, Texas, Feb. 28, 2025 - Tasked with building the Amarillo Police Department’s (APD) real-time crime center, Commander Shane Chadwick knew he needed four foundational pillars: automated license plate readers, intersection cameras and other surveillance feeds, drone technology, and a data integration platform to unify and contextualize those disparate sources.

The Amarillo Tribune recently toured the Amarillo Regional Crime Center (ARCC), which runs on Peregrine. Our platform integrates virtually any data source, allowing analysts to look through a “single pane of glass,” Chadwick told the Amarillo Tribune. Rather than manually searching through dozens of siloed sources, ARCC analysts use Peregrine’s single search bar to get a full picture in seconds.

“It turns a two-, three-hour search into about a five-minute search,” Cmdr. Chadwick said.

While the ARCC is still in its early stages, the APD has noted a 17.5% increase in arrests since its launch, though the agency doesn’t track direct outcomes data. And as more Texas agencies adopt real-time crime centers and invest in new technology, Cmdr. Chadwick hopes to increase efficiency across the entire region through collaboration and data-sharing, powered by platforms like Peregrine.

“In 29 years, we’ve never played real well with anybody. We’ve never shared stuff across the law enforcement community. It’s like everybody’s siloed. They work with their guys, we don’t tell them what we’re doing, we don’t share data, we don’t share arrests,” Chadwick said. “I wanted that all to change."

Read the full article from the Amarillo Tribune here.