In 1979, I helped with the first implementation of a computer-aided dispatch and records management system in Ottawa. Part of the project dealt with Canada’s first ever use of mobile data terminals. I was given this assignment primarily because I was the most junior officer working in the communications section.

Long gone are the days of assigning a junior constable to help manage a major information technology (IT) project. Having said that, are law enforcement leaders doing enough to help with the convergence between IT and radio professionals who work for us?