ADORE (the Automated Daily Observation Report and Evaluation system) is used by over 250 law enforcement agencies to monitor training of recruits. It maintains vital training records, and includes a comprehensive data collection and analysis system to pinpoint areas of strength and weakness.

The Challenge: Collect detailed officer evaluations from almost anywhere: on the beat, in squadcars, and in stations and substations. Transfer them to headquarters, and allow them to be reviewed, signed, and analyzed at any other point in the juristiction. This system must operate through a variety of wide-area network connections maintained by police departments.

Our Solution: Provide a system for directly entering and reviewing evaluations on Palm Pilot, desktop, and laptop computers. Police generally use Palms on the beat, and Palms or laptops (sometimes doubling as mobile data terminals) in squad cars. Using a specialized conduit provided with ADORE, they periodically transfer information from Palms to laptops or desktops. The data is sent to thee headquarters server using a variety of methods, depending on the nature and speed of network connections available:

  • Officers with faster and more permanent network connections have their data stored directly to the server as it is entered.
  • Those with slower or intermittent connections periodically upload their data to the headquarters server, often through docked or wireless connections.
  • Some departments, lacking network connections altogether, transfer their data by floppy or Zip disk, or by other removable media.
Data gathered from other locations is often distributed back to field computers through the same channels. This allows an evaluation performed in one precinct to be signed at a second and then viewed in all precincts.

ADORE is published by MDE, Inc.