Part I: Editing [Back to Writing
Test Page] Printed below is a passage
for you to edit. You should make sure
the passage is grammatically
correct, internally consistent and readable, among other things. Please use
standard proofreading symbols to indicate any changes. PIMS,
which stands for the police infomation management system, is a computerized
data processing system that is designed to help local law enforcement
agencies in the management of their records and stopping crime. First
conceived over fifteen years ago and installed originally in 1981, the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority created PIMS to solve the information
needs of small and medium–sized law enforcements agencies throughout
Illinois. It is currently in use at 51 state agencies. PMIS
has seven modules: arrestee, incident, officer activity, crime mapping, statistical
reporting and management reports. Each has been designed such that
they are easy to use and operate, even if users have little or no prior experience
with computers. In addition, the sysem is flexable enough to be operated
on a range of computers, from small microcomputers to the largest mainframe
CPU’s. A
major develpment for 1996 is PIMS for Windows, which will take advantage of
the friendly interfaces available thorough this systems' graphical design.
PIMS currently runs on dos-based systems. |