Springfield Police Enter Data Exchange Program

Springfield's Police department is one of 10 municipal law enforcement agencies joining the Union County Police in a police information system. Police officers using the system, called the New Jersey Data Exchange Program, or NJDEX, will be able to use in-car computers to access real time criminal information from a central intelligence server hosted by the Union County Prosecutor's office.

The shared information includes arrest records, outstanding warrants and incidents reports.

Union County's participation in NJDEX was announced earlier this month. Union is the third county in New Jersey to adopt NJDEX, after Bergen and Morris. Four hundred thousand dollars in Federal and State Homeland Security funding was used to fund the system's implementation.

The other Union County municipalities participating in the system are Elizabeth, Berkeley Heights, Roselle Park, Mountainside, Scotch Plains, Roselle, Fanwood, Linden and Plainfield.

"Having this system in place gives our law enforcement personnel another tool to keep our residents safe," said Union County Freeholder Chairman Dan Sullivan said in a statement. "Immediate access to crime information and data will result in an enhanced ability of our law enforcement agencies to improve our efforts in serving and protecting our citizens."