Chief Paulo Da Silva on Versaterm & Connected Public Safety Technology
Chief Paulo Da Silva of York Regional Police shares what 22 years of partnership with Versaterm has meant for his officers, his community and the future of connected public safety technology.
York Regional Police serves more than 1.3 million residents across nine municipalities north of Toronto, from urban neighborhoods in the south to rural areas in the north. Chief Da Silva was on the agency’s original Versaterm implementation team in 2004. In this conversation, he discusses:
- Why limited resources make innovation essential for every member of the service
- Why disconnected systems waste time, and what “one system, one pane of glass” means in practice
- How York Regional Police relies on Versaterm CAD, Versaterm RMS and the full Versaterm suite, including Versaterm CommunityConnect, where it was the first agency in Canada to deploy
- What excites him about Versaterm ECC Assist, as well as Versaterm DroneSense for Drone as First Responder programs
- Why the vendor-agency relationship matters as much as the technology
