Western Nebraska Observer - Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

At 1 p.m. Friday, the Kimball Dispatch Center went from using paper and pencil to recording calls into the 21st Century using a web-based computer program.

With Kimball County now into the 21st Century, only four other agencies in Nebraska – including Banner and Sioux – are operating with paper and pencil and written reports. So what used to be recorded in notebooks and on paper will now be logged on the computer with an easy retrieval.

According to Nick Conley, product manager for EFORCE, the "goal of our system is to reduce the amount of time they are spending looking for information...