October 14th, 2011

Fast Evidence Drop    
Police officers and Detectives can easily label and submit evidence to an unmanned secure area.

Ace Fast Evidence Drop is a powerful productivity module that provides ACE Property and Evidence System with the power and flexibility to meet needs of the most demanding police departments around the world.

“Many police departments still use a voucher system to document property & evidence.” said Phil Muller, CEO of Software Techniques. “In today’s economic climate we are always looking for ways to save officers time and remove duplicate work wherever possible.”

“Fast Evidence Drop has proven to be a huge success” said Muller . “We knew there would be a real time savings for the Property Room but the system generated unexpected productivity dividends.”
 
Putting it to use

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October 14th, 2011

How do you eat an elephant? One spoonful at a time!

Challenges presented by a huge property warehouse

A major Las Vegas Police Department has a huge 45,000 sq. ft. primary property and evidence warehouse plus two other warehouses of 24,000 and 9,000 sq. ft. Though they now have sufficient space to store the nearly 1 million items they currently have under management, the task of managing an inventory of that size requires tremendous efficiency and productivity from their property techs. Armed with up-to-date technology and Software Techniques‘ ACE (Active Control of Evidence) management software they are now able to equip their staff with tools to boost their productivity and efficiency to meet the challenge.


The IT departments IT staff installed a secure wireless network system in their warehouse. Panasonic U1 Toughbooks were put into use running ACE software. The handheld rugged computers with built ...   Read more...

September 25th, 2011

September 2011 - Software Techniques, Inc has added a new module to ACE with the release of Active Inventory Manager (AIM). This newly introduced application provides the same trusted features that the CE Device Software provides, but upgraded in a more active capacity. The AIM module works on both a wireless or wired network via a windows-based wifi device.
  The core of AIM provides three main functions:

1. Real Time Inventory: Perform inventory checks of any evidence storage location in your system and see in real-time how much of the inventory has been completed. Any items that exist in the location will display a waiting population. Any items that are scanned and do not belong in the population will immediately display in red on the device, notifying you of the location error so that it may be resolved.  The scanned inventory will actively store an audit in the ACE system ...   Read more...

June 17th, 2011

June 2011-  A new ACE Module has been released by Software Techniques Inc. The Milestones Module will now allow agencies to track events and tasks as defined by the user, adding to the already large list of tracking capabilities already built into ACE.
  This module will allow agencies to track events and tasks that go beyond the normal tracking of property and evidence. It will also allow law enforcement agencies to track their own specific tasks and use it in a variety of ways.
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