CompuDyne Corporation announces that while tens of thousands of fans and hundreds of millions of television viewers watched the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks compete in Super Bowl XL, the city of Detroit managed the increased call volume for
public safety services using a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system provided by CompuDyne Public Safety & Justice Inc. (formerly Tiburon Inc.).

The Detroit Police Department worked with more than 100 local, state, and federal agencies to ensure that Super Bowl XL was a safe experience for everyone. In addition to serving the public safety agencies of Detroit, the CompuDyne system also provided support to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to the company.

Federal agencies were given access to the CAD data warehouse to receive real-time updates about all law enforcement events. Incident information was interfaced to an external system used by the Department of Homeland Security to provide a consolidated view of police, fire, and emergency medical activities to more than 400 public safety managers and coordinators at all levels of government.

The CAD system processed more than 6,280 calls for emergency service in the 24 hours surrounding Super Bowl XL. The city of Detroit deployed a special command post in the communication center to handle the increased call volume. The system allowed police to create a special routing code that signaled the system to reroute Super Bowl- related calls to the command post.

Reprinted from Police Chief Website - March 2006

Flashpoint
Spring 2006