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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Arnold-Jones
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
1/31/07
HB 656
SHORT TITLE Albuquerque Police Comprehensive Info System
SB
ANALYST Propst
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$3,000.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 656 appropriates $3,000.0 from the General Fund to the Local Government Division
of the Department of Finance to provide the Albuquerque Police Department with computer
software and hardware for the comprehensive information system.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $3,000.0 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund.
Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall revert to the
General Fund.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
DFA reports that APD has been attempting to upgrade their current information system but has
experienced difficulty in the transfer of data from one platform to another. As a result, APD
began their CAD/RMS Integration Project that includes five initiatives to be completed over a
five year timeframe at an estimated cost of $29.7 million. The first of the five initiatives is the
Comprehensive Information System with an estimated cost of $9.6 million. Completion of all
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five phases of the Integration Project will allow APD to comply with the objectives outlined in a
special audit by the Office of Internal Audit completed in September 2005.
The system upgrades will provide a more effective means of case management for police
officers. The Comprehensive Information System Project has the ability to share criminal history
information with other public safety agencies, the court system, and probation and parole to
maximize operational efficiency, departmental effectiveness and public safety services for the
citizens of Albuquerque. The system can complete the aforementioned tasks through the
deployment of relational database technology that allows linkages among data elements to
improve crime-solving capabilities; and provide database exchange technologies to facilitate
more efficient inter-agency communication and data sharing.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
The funds appropriated in HB 656 only supplement the resources that are required to fully
finance this project. DFA notes that, while the appropriation is accurately targeted, the scope of
this project is distributed over several years. There is also the consideration of maintenance and
staffing requirements that are necessary to maintain the integrity of the system and its
applications.
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