How Peregrine integrates data and delivers value in 90 days
KEY IDEAS:
- Public safety agencies often face slow, resource-intensive deployments when adopting new technology.
- Deployment delays, implementation complexity, and limited training can reduce staff adoption and delay operational impact.
- Peregrine supports 90-day deployment through proprietary integration technology and goal-oriented training tied to real agency workflows.
- With a unified, intuitive platform, public safety personnel can quickly access the information they need to make faster, more informed decisions.
Public safety agencies need speed to value whenever they invest in a new technology, but over-budget, lengthy technology deployments are all too common within state and local governments. When agencies invest in new technologies that fail to deliver in a timely manner, they risk losing their community and elected leaders’ trust.
Peregrine is designed to be deployed and deliver value quickly. Within 90 days, your organization will be able to use our platform to make better decisions by:
- Empowering command staff with accurate data on violent crime trends to better set department-level priorities
- Giving patrol officers confidence during every interaction they have with community members
- Supercharging investigators’ ability to formulate hypotheses, connect the dots between disparate data sources, and ultimately solve cases
No matter your priorities, Peregrine will meet your needs quickly. In order to reduce our time to value to 90 days or less, we focus on two parallel tracks during deployment: technology and training.
🔎 WHY DO PUBLIC SAFETY TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENTS TAKE SO LONG?
Public safety agencies often rely on complex legacy systems, fragmented data sources, strict security requirements, and role-specific workflows. Peregrine reduces time to value by combining purpose-built data integration technology with flexible training, so personnel can start using the platform faster.
What is a public safety data model?
We are uniquely able to deploy with such speed and quality because of our dynamic data model and proprietary tooling. Before we dive into the details, it’s important to know what a data model is.
Think of a data model as a digital blueprint of the world, containing all the objects — People, Places, and Things — your staff analyzes and connects when they run a search, produce a report, or respond to a call for service. Objects can originate or exist in multiple systems:
- People can be in a records management system (RMS), a citation system, and a warrant service system.
- The same is true of Places and Things: A vehicle could exist in a police report, the local DMV database, and in a 911 call transcript within a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system.
In a data model, you can think of each object as a collection of attributes. For example, you might want to capture the fact that a specific vehicle is of a particular make, model, and year. If an investigator is looking for a particular vehicle involved in a crime, or if leadership wants to understand the most frequently stolen vehicles, vehicles must be categorized and understood with these specific attributes and more. You can’t answer common questions in law enforcement like “What are the most commonly stolen vehicles” without this data.
🧠 KEY CONCEPT: A public safety data model is a blueprint for organizing the people, places, things, and events that appear across agency data sources. Each object includes attributes that help agencies search, analyze, and connect information across systems.
How Peregrine’s data model accelerates deployment
Implementation begins when our experienced implementation team, specializing in software engineering, product development, user engagement, and training, gets access to your department’s systems. The lift on your IT department is minimal. After our team receives login credentials, we manage everything.
Our cloud-native platform built on AWS is CJIS compliant, with multi-layered, end-to-end security controls, so that public safety agencies can be sure their data is safe from external intrusions and appropriately accessed and actioned only by agency authorized personnel.
We have deep expertise working with public safety agencies of all stripes. Our team understands the systems you are integrating into Peregrine, and it’s likely we’ve worked with them before. We know how the “objects” relate to one another in the real world, and we know how to work with your team to configure the platform in a way that aligns with the daily realities of your users.
🔎 AT A GLANCE: HOW PEREGRINE’S TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS 90-DAY DEPLOYMENT
- Deployment specialists work directly with agencies to set up the platform.
- Built-in public safety context reduces configuration time.
- A dynamic data model automatically links information across systems.
- Proprietary integration tools connect agency data in days, not months.
Built-in public safety context reduces setup time
That knowledge is baked into our dynamic data model. We call it “the smart default for public safety,” because our data model was built with an understanding of how everyone within public safety agencies works and how they interact with data. The data model has predefined objects, characterizations, and attributes of those objects.
The real value is how Peregrine connects data — we use smart, configurable heuristics to automatically link objects across multiple systems together to provide users with the context and information they need to make better decisions.
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Automated object linking connects data across systems
Let's use vehicles as an example of how objects can be brought together. Peregrine can link data generated from automated license plate readers (ALPR) to BOLO data, enabling agencies to both quickly identify the location of a vehicle and give responding officers all the context they need — information from the BOLO — to ensure they’re safe during any encounter.
By leveraging connections and insights derived from the links between objects across siloed systems, Peregrine is your entire department’s decision infrastructure. Everyone at all levels can find facts that were previously unattainable and use Peregrine to make better choices in the moments that matter most.
The specificity and intentionality behind the data model drives quick deployment and value. On day one, instead of having to spend months looking at an agency’s systems and how their data is generated, we can immediately improve the usefulness of most of their data by integrating, transforming, and modeling it within the platform to immediately surface links between siloed data across disparate systems — like the BOLO and ALPR example.
Upon deployment, our data model will automatically make links we know to be common within public safety, just like we can easily correlate data with specific objects, attributes, and characteristics known within the public safety domain. And as we manage new use cases and new linkages between objects, our experience and knowledge further refines the data model — meaning every customer is deriving immediate value from all use cases built into the platform.
CASE STUDY → How Concord PD Unified Data in Weeks and Saw Results in 90 Days
Proprietary integration tools move data in days, not months
To further increase speed to value, we treat data integration as a first-class problem. Data integration or migration is, in many ways, the starting line. Expensive, slow, or incomplete data migration prevents technology from ever getting off the ground and used by department personnel to create value.
But basic failures are all too common for public safety agencies, and it should be an unacceptable status quo.
To address these problems, Peregrine has built internal, proprietary tools to make it easy to securely move, model, and link data between disparate source systems. For example, Peregrine team members can integrate entire RMS and CAD systems on-site in a matter of days — not weeks or months — side-by-side with your experts as soon as we have IT access.
And if your team has a use case that requires unique links between objects, we don’t need new code or a massive data migration team of engineers to spend months building pipelines from scratch. Instead, we can easily configure the heuristics in the platform to do whatever you need, because of the substantial, upfront investment we’ve made in data migration and integration tools.
The result? Peregrine can do in hours or days what takes other organizations months.
🔎 WHY DOES USER TRAINING MATTER DURING TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT?
Technology only delivers value when personnel know how to use it in their daily workflows. Role-based training helps patrol officers, investigators, analysts, and command staff apply Peregrine to real use cases from the start.
How training helps agencies adopt Peregrine in the first 90 days
In the first 90 days, we pair our cutting-edge data modeling technology with curated, flexible training that’s unique for each of our customers. Training — from the very basics to advanced workshops for power users — is also available on an ongoing basis.
When the integration process begins, our training team works with every customer to build a training schedule that aligns with their needs — in-person or virtually. The schedule is crafted based on a department’s goals, which roles or personnel will be using Peregrine, and how they plan to leverage Peregrine to empower their personnel to make better decisions throughout the course of their day-to-day work.
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Role-based training supports real agency workflows
At its core, Peregrine is designed to be used by all agency personnel, and our training mirrors that. Every training is hands-on and based on actual workflows, such as:
- Showing patrol officers how to quickly perform person or premise history searches on the Peregrine mobile app
- Demonstrating to investigators how to build networks between previously unconnected data
- Coaching analysts to modernize their department’s CompStat meeting for command staff
We use each customer’s own data during the training, so personnel can gain true value and experience with Peregrine from the first moment of the first session.
Ongoing education reinforces long-term adoption
The subsequent trainings we develop are continuously optimized based on feedback and usage. After deployment, ongoing education for the aspects of the platform department personnel are using most frequently ensures they become experts in the most common ways they use Peregrine in the course of their day-to-day work.
🔑 HOW DOES TRAINING IMPROVE ADOPTION IN THE FIRST 90 DAYS?
- Training schedules align with each agency’s goals, roles, and use cases.
- Hands-on sessions are tailored to real workflows for patrol, investigations, analysis, and command staff.
- Ongoing education is optimized based on user feedback and platform usage.
Stop waiting on over-budget, delayed technology deployments. Start making better decisions with Peregrine in 90 days.
About Aakash Pattabi
Aakash Pattabi is the Deployment Team Lead at Peregrine, where he's led successful Peregrine platform implementations for several of Peregrine’s municipal law enforcement agency customers. Prior to joining Peregrine, he worked for BCG Digital Ventures, designing new software products for Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare and financial services spaces. He also has extensive experience working with public sector data at USAFacts and the Partnership for Public Service. A Stanford University alumnus, Aakash holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Master of Science degree in computer science, with a specialization in artificial intelligence.
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