Interoperability
Definition
The ability of separate agency databases, such as a police records system and a court case-tracking system, to exchange case data in a common format without manual re-entry.
Related terms
- Case Conferencing
- A scheduled meeting between the investigating officer, the prosecutor, and sometimes a court official before a matter is listed for trial, used...
- Case Management System
- Software used by a court, prosecutor's office, or police force to record, schedule, and track the status of individual cases from filing...
- Inter-Agency Coordination
- The set of formal and informal arrangements by which police, prosecution, courts, and corrections share information, align timelines, and hand off responsibility...
- Liaison Prosecutor
- A prosecutor embedded with a police investigation team from an early stage, able to flag evidentiary gaps before a charge sheet is...
- Silo Effect
- The tendency of an agency to optimise its own internal process and metrics without a mandate to track how its output is...