Mobile computers can be much more these days than simply a screen on the squad car dashboard. In an era of downsizing, mobile computing tools help law enforcement and public safety officers, their managers, and their agencies make better, more efficient use of their most important resource: their officers.

More advanced and portable devices and more sophisticated technologies on both the front and back ends are transforming mobile computers into a digital extension of the police station or substation. Put another way, from parking tickets to arrest warrants, mobile computers these days, like the officers who use them, are multitaskers.