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August 23, 2007

Police dashboard redesigned for safety

Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski
The new dashboard is designed to provide police officers with more room and easier access to controls.

Police have a lot to do while they're in their car -- there's driving, of course, but then there's following a suspect; searching for an address; listening to the dispatcher.

All of this struck Jr. Neville Songwe, a former graduate student in industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design, as unsafe, especially in the confined space of the modern police cruiser.

So he designed something that he thought was better. And today, the Providence police, along with Mayor David N. Cicilline, will unveil Songwe's design, the "Brijo" at the Public Safety Complex.

The department will begin road testing vehicles with the new dashboard design soon.

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