2006 DPS Annual Report - Arizona Department of Public Safety
2006 DPS Annual Report - Arizona Department of Public Safety
2006 DPS Annual Report - Arizona Department of Public Safety
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Criminal Justice<br />
Support Division<br />
<strong>DPS</strong> implements web-based Secondary Employment Scheduling System (SESS)<br />
In July 2005, a custom developed, web-based <strong>DPS</strong> secondary employment scheduling application was<br />
implemented. The Central Highway Patrol Bureau requested an application to replace the mainframe <strong>of</strong>fduty<br />
employment bulletin board and manual department scheduling procedures in the Phoenix metropolitan<br />
area. The new web-based application provides authorized <strong>DPS</strong> secondary employment coordinators<br />
the ability to add and cancel employment opportunities<br />
resulting in more accurate records. Authorized sworn<br />
employees and sworn reserve personnel can view and sign<br />
up for available secondary employment opportunities from<br />
the <strong>DPS</strong> internet home page which saves time by eliminating<br />
the secondary employment coordinator having to personally<br />
contact individual <strong>of</strong>ficers to schedule each employment<br />
opportunity. The automated system also provides<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficers with equal secondary employment opportunities.<br />
In April <strong>2006</strong>, enhancements to the web-based system were<br />
implemented. The primary objectives <strong>of</strong> these enhancements<br />
were the ability for the administrator to enter secondary<br />
employment opportunities in the database without<br />
automatically being published on the website for the <strong>of</strong>ficers and the ability to distinguish between the<br />
maximum number <strong>of</strong> highway jobs and the maximum number <strong>of</strong> event jobs that an <strong>of</strong>ficer can work within<br />
a 24 hour period.<br />
New mainframe disk drives and tape drives purchased<br />
New IBM disk drives were purchased to replace the aging Amdahl and Hitachi units. The IBM 8100 series<br />
devices will modernize the <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Safety</strong>’s computing facilities and will be the beginning <strong>of</strong><br />
a migration towards a storage area network (SAN) infrastructure for the mainframe and servers. The SAN<br />
will allow all computers to share the same disk drives; which is more efficient and less expensive than<br />
continuing to add disk capacity to individual servers. The IBM 8100 was initially purchased to replace the<br />
mainframe disk drives however, over time; it can grow to include the rest <strong>of</strong> the servers.<br />
In addition, new IBM 3592 tape drives have been purchased and installed to replace the old Memorex units<br />
in the computer room. The new units are state-<strong>of</strong>-the-art with advanced compression and speed. These<br />
new tape drives were critical for the Disaster Recovery testing completed in June. With the old tape drives,<br />
it would have taken days for the system to be backed up and restored onto tape. With the new tape drives,<br />
the system backup and restore only took approximately three hours to complete. Additionally, with the<br />
new compression, Information Technology Bureau staff was able to fit all the files required to bring up both<br />
the operating system and the ACJIS network onto two tapes. The old system would have required approximately<br />
160 tapes for the same information.<br />
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