Peregrine 101: How law enforcement maximizes resources to better serve communities
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April 20, 2023
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September 1, 2026
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Peregrine
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April 20, 2023
Last Updated
September 1, 2026
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Peregrine 101: How law enforcement maximizes resources to better serve communities
KEY IDEAS:
- When public law enforcement is siloed across systems, personnel can spend days or weeks manually gathering, reconciling, and formatting reports.
- Reporting delays leave command staff making decisions based on incomplete, outdated, or fragmented information.
- Data integration connects public safety systems and automates reporting, giving leaders faster access to timely, digestible insights.
- Integrated data helps command staff allocate resources more effectively, develop more accurate strategies, and get more value from existing technology investments.
Command staff need partners that will help them empower their department to keep communities safer with fewer resources. Peregrine helps law enforcement command staff make better decisions in every high leverage moment, enabling department leadership to better deploy resources and data-driven policing strategies that will keep people safe and ensure every hour and every dollar spent is driving the most value for the communities law enforcement serves.
🔑 KEY TAKEAWAY: Data integration helps law enforcement agencies do more with limited resources by turning fragmented information into timely, actionable insight. With Peregrine, command staff can:
- Better understand department-wide operations
- Deploy resources more precisely
- Make data-driven decisions in high-leverage moments
- Get more value out of their existing systems
Command staff are responsible for the safety of their officers and set department-level priorities, including reducing violent crime or reducing times for calls for service within their jurisdictions.
Regular CompStat reviews are one way command staff leverage data to make decisions. Commanders need timely and accurate information to effectively deploy resources and leverage the best tactics in the field, as well as a method to measure the efficacies of the strategies and tactics the department uses in real time.
When communities face competing priorities, efficiency becomes foundational to effective public safety. But siloed, disparate data makes formulating and implementing the data-driven strategies that address the root causes of crime in an efficient manner challenging.
To complete a single report, staff often have to:
By the time the data is processed and ready for review, it’s often out of date.
🔎 HOW DOES DISCONNECTED DATA AFFECT COMMAND STAFF DECISION-MAKING?
Disconnected data makes it harder for command staff to see what is happening across the department in real time. When staff must manually gather, clean, and contextualize information across multiple systems, reports can become outdated before leaders use them to make decisions about staffing, strategy, or resource allocation.
Data integration eliminates the tedious, time-consuming effort of manually reconciling disparate information. With a unified data platform like Peregrine, this takes minutes instead of days or weeks.
Peregrine integrates all of a department’s data into one place, automating visualizations of key data in real time, like case closure rate, 911 call response time, and open cases per detective.
By connecting disparate data together, command staff — along with everyone in the department — can see the bigger picture and understand key factors driving things like violent crime rates or 911 call response times. Peregrine then helps everyone in the department act based on their data, shrinking the delta between decision-making and effective response.
Data-driven policing is a proven tool for reducing and preventing crime. Because Peregrine integrates all of a department’s data into one platform and updates it in real time, supervisors can monitor caseloads, assess officer performance, track accountability metrics, and adjust where resources are allocated based on the greatest need and impact.
CASE STUDY → How the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office Optimized Patrol Staffing With Real-Time Analysis
That can have a significant impact on agencies’ efforts to reduce violent crime. Without these data-driven insights, crime prevention efforts are more broad and less targeted. This is not only inefficient resource allocation, but it can also erode trust between the communities law enforcement serves when visible strategies don’t appear to work.
Peregrine equips decision-makers with data they need, including accurate information on crime trends and involved persons, so they can make intentional choices geared at better safety outcomes for their communities.
💡 WHAT DATA INTEGRATION HELPS COMMAND STAFF DO:
- Reduce manual reporting across disconnected systems
- Monitor operational metrics in near real time
- Allocate personnel and resources based on current needs
- Measure whether strategies are producing the intended outcomes
Personnel isn’t the only limited resource departments must manage — every dollar public safety agencies spend to protect their communities deserves accountability. Command staff often must choose between new police vehicles for patrol and new technologies to help keep their officers safer and empower them to be better at their jobs.
Over-budget, lengthy technology implementations that over-promise and under-deliver are all too common within state and local government agencies, public safety and law enforcement departments included.
One of the most common and costly expenditures we see are computer-aided dispatch (CAD) and record management systems (RMS) transitions. In 2019, the Green Bay Police Department struggled with the implementation and deployment of a new $1.2M CAD system. The police chief said, “It's definitely impacting our ability to do our jobs ... our hardest workers, the real go-getters out there, are the ones least satisfied” with the system change.
READ MORE → Tips for Navigating Your Next CAD/RMS Transition
RMS and CAD systems don’t always work well together, which siloes important information, like 911 call transcripts detailing an incident. This can make it difficult for patrol officers to get the information they need when responding to a call for service, potentially facing a violent encounter or for detectives to make connections between disparate data to solve crimes more quickly. And like any technology transition, sometimes data can be corrupted or lost, which can further stunt operations.
Whether it’s data loss or ineffective systems, the results are hindered operations that put communities at risk, too much money spent, and administrative work for public safety personnel.
🔎 HOW CAN DATA INTEGRATION HELP AGENCIES GET MORE VALUE FROM CAD AND RMS SYSTEMS?
Data integration helps agencies connect CAD, RMS, and other public safety systems without requiring any systems to be replaced. By bringing information together in one platform, agencies can reduce silos, preserve access to critical data, and make existing technology investments more useful.
Peregrine works with any CAD and RMS as well as all other external, interagency, or authorized external data sources — together into one platform.
A lot of our team members are former law enforcement officers and leaders. We know firsthand how thin public safety agencies are stretched, and how high the expectations for results are.
Let us help you navigate the new normal. Get in touch today.
Ed Padinske comes from a public service-oriented family and is a former Navy Captain and Intelligence Officer. He served as a Senior Duty Officer in the White House Situation Room on and after 9/11, on six aircraft carriers, and in a range of Special Operations positions from commanding the Joint Special Operations Intelligence Brigade to Senior Intelligence Officer for all of the Navy’s SEAL Teams. He currently focuses on helping public safety institutions serve better through decision infrastructure capabilities at Peregrine, and in his spare time serves on a non-profit board that supports first responders and veterans facing mental health crises.
Data integration for public safety agencies connects information from systems such as CAD, RMS, ALPR systems, evidence databases, arrest and warrant information, and other operational tools into a unified platform. This helps command staff access timely, accurate information without relying on manual reporting across disconnected systems.
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