NYPD New / Editorial - CIO, 1 Mar 2006

http://www.cio.com/archive/030106/nypd.htmlThomas Wailgum
"In May 2003, Onalfo came out of retirement to be the first-ever NYPD CIO. He was in for a shock. Upon arrival he discovered that the department lacked an adequate disaster recovery plan with redundancy and backup sites - 20 months after 9/11. If, say, there had been a fire in one of the precincts and it torched the computers, officers wouldn't have been able to process criminals within the 24-hour time frame established by state law. Consequently, those perps would have walked. 'I almost left the same day I got here because I didn't want to be responsible for that,' Onalfo recalls."[Information Technology; Police]