The digital age is helping us with many things, and one of the most important is precisely to be able to save on paper and combine what used to be many elements in one: calculator, notepad, scanner ... Even in the Police Department of New York seems to have understood it and have decided to take a significant generational leap. This is how the NYPD has decided to leave the traditional notepad behind and switch to the iPhone through its own application. Definitely the security forces are also adapting to the new times that run in the most efficient way.
As of next February 17, they decide to completely eliminate the usual paper notepad with pens that New York police officers carry with them in their vehicles to start using a specific development application for them. In these "notepads" the policemen wrote down the arrests, details of the victims and even the stops they made to eat something, But now they will have it more at hand and of course they will gain privacy by switching to a digital version for iOS, as reported The New York Times Recently.
Cops are going to have to log in to write on this "digital notepad" so the new mechanism is at least much more secure than the old one. In Spain we are also adapting to these media, the new miDGT application will allow you to carry your driving license and vehicle documentation on your iPhone, generating a series of QR codes that can be read by the devices of the authorities and avoiding thus the loss and falsification of documentation. This is not new to the New York Police Department either, as they have been using the iPhone since 2015.