Tasked with developing and coordinating comprehensive criminal justice plans and distributing federal funds to Louisiana law enforcement agencies under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice (LCLE) was created as an office of the Governor in 1969. Since that time, LCLE has been responsible for planning and funding some of the most important programs in law enforcement, including:
- Louisiana Incident-Based Reporting System (LIBRS)
- Law Enforcement Management Information System (LEMIS)
- Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
- Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
- Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.).
Technology Engineers has played a key role in creating Internet- and Windows-based systems used daily to collect criminal records data, report state crime statistics to the FBI, track peace officer qualifications, and schedule training for the many classes offered by LCLE. Our analysts and software engineers work daily with LCLE’s professional staff to enhance the capability of these systems to make law enforcement in Louisiana more effective.
Developed to comply with the Peace Officer Standards Training law, POST Plus collects law enforcement- related data. The scope of the workload is statewide, and in terms of volume, quite large, involving database information on over forty thousand registrants from peace officers to firearms instructors. This system is based upon HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and ASP.NET 2.0 technology with AJAX 1.0 and SQL Server 2005 as the backend. The project team closely followed all standards developed by LCLE staff with regards to information system application development, including programming and documentation standards, as well as database standards.
Louisiana officers each have a profile in the POST Plus system which contains personal, employment and certification information. Also input into the system is information regarding instructors, concealed handgun permits, and offered certification classes. LCLE Staff can create a certification class, search the system for the officers that should be included in the class, and add officers to create the class roster. After the class has been completed, LCLE staff populates the score and dates for each officer’s performance. Officer History Reports for each officer can be generated and includes all information relating to class certification location, scores, and dates. Furthermore, staff can generate customized certificates of completion and officer cards from the POST Plus system.
Also included in the POST Plus system is a separate Administrative login to add and maintain users and control user permissions.
Recently, Technology Engineers added external access for Firearm Instructors and filterable reports to lessen the workload of the POST staff. Previous to this enhancement, all information was sent to LCLE via mail or fax on paper forms, filled out by the Firearm Instructor, and LCLE users entered the data into the POST Plus system which added significantly to the workload of the POST staff. Now the Firearm Instructor access allows these external users to add their own classes, report officer certification scores and dates, and simply submit the information to POST users for final approval. Generating Performance Indicator reports was another tediously task that POST staff was performing manually. Technology Engineers added a handful of business rules and filters to query the POST data and generate Performance Indicator reports at the touch of a button.
The POST Plus system is used to determine which officers in the state receive supplemental pay.
 UCR Online is a web-based system built using ASP.NET, JavaScript and SQL Server 2008. It securely and accurately manages Louisiana’s crime statistics. Technology Engineers recreated the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports to enable state agency users to access, complete, and submit reports online to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement. Once the reports are submitted by the agency, LCLE users have the ability to reject or approve them. The LCLE user can also edit the UCR information, print the reports, and change records to the final status of ‘Submitted to the FBI.’ The UCR information is collected and compiled into a single Louisiana database.
UCR Online addresses form management by allowing the user to access and update both current and previously submitted reports in a user friendly format. UCR Online also reduces the frequency of errors by validating certain information, auto-calculating totals, and searching for existing reports to keep duplicates from being entered into system.
Technology Engineers has also developed class enrollment systems, not unlike the current CNP course registration site for training sponsor staff. LCLE uses this system to register users in the UCROnline system, as well as register participants in
LCLE training classes for instructors.
The administrative back-end of the course registration
system allows administrators to create new classes, cancel classes, confirm enrollment, and send blast emails to class participants.
New class creation has many options available to administrators. Beyond setting up time, date, and deadline options for the class, automatic emails are pre-drafted to be automatically sent to participants as they sign up. Many options are customizable to the specific class, such as choosing to show/not show certain fields during registration.
The public users can register and search for classes that interest them. With each new registration the number of seats available will decrease, and full classes will be closed from registration.
Working with management, Technology Engineers’ design team developed a professional, content heavy website for LCLE. Within the site are several unique features, such as the ability for to register for classes organized and sponsored by LCLE (see above). The site was designed in such a way that content can be updated and changed frequently by in-house staff, rather than use outside technical support.
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