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Tupelo Police Department, MS

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TUPELO - A researcher for Ethicsnow says she's waiting for documents from Lee County E911 and that wait could delay her report about Tupelo Police Department conduct.

Cindy Brown says she wants reports covering calendar years 2005-06 of contact between the Tupelo Police Department and emergency dispatchers to validate citizen complaints.

The E911 Commission approved her request in January, but Brown said she has yet to get the documents and now it's nearly mid-March. Ethicsnow was hired by the Tupelo City Council to look into allegations of racial bias by the police department.

Brown will get her requested documents soon. E911 director Paul Harkins said late Friday he was running them off for her and expected the result to be voluminous - maybe as much as 40,000 pages. Harkins attributed the delay to an attempt to put the information in an electronic format, instead of using paper.

"We've been working the past week to get the stuff to come up," he said.

In a letter dated Dec. 29, Brown wrote Harkins that the request is "part of the assessment of the police department."

She said she wants the date and time of each call from the police department, the identity of the officer or officers requesting the information, the registration or license information provided by the officers or dispatch, and the resulting information provided by E911 dispatchers.

"The process is coming along much slower than I anticipated," she said. Brown said she had estimated completing her work by February but delays, such as this one, may extend her time until late May.

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