OVERVIEW / BACKGROUND: The CONTRACTOR shall provide and maintain a “one-stop shop” investigative electronic database and submission system (“SYSTEM”) for the City and County of Honolulu Police Department (“HPD”) so that pawnshop, secondhand, used motor vehicle parts and scrap metal businesses (“DEALER”) are able to submit and input their Record of Transactions (“ROT”). The SYSTEM shall also provide a database of stolen bicycles so that the public can conduct a theft check of stolen bicycles within the City and County of Honolulu. The SYSTEM must be able to accept, store, and maintain digital photographs that may capture the transaction of an article that was sold or pawned at a DEALER, including receiving employee’s digital signature and photograph of person who sold/pawned the article, the seller’s valid government identification, and negotiated financial agreement. The SYSTEM must also provide HPD investigators with search functions that can conduct investigative queries with advanced algorithms of the transactional data or ROTs that can ascertain the following parameters with high probability to: Locate, identify, and determine that an article that had been sold or pawned at a DEALER; Identify the person(s) who sold that stolen item to the DEALER; Submit article(s) hold requests (electronically) to ensure the DEALER does not re-sell article(s) that have been located, identified, and determined to be stolen; Assist in the recovery and submittal of stolen article(s) into HPD evidence until a determination can be made of who the rightful owner(s) are; and Submit reports articulating the facts and circumstances on how the sold article was located, identified, and determined to be stolen as well as identifying the person(s) who sold that stolen article(s) to the DEALER.
