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The distance between electronic files and a responding officer just got shorter.

Cheyenne County Sheriff Adam Frerichs met with the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners on March 1.

Part of his report updated the commissioners on a new computer system. Each department vehicle will have a mobile computer. There will also be a camera in each vehicle and deputies will be wearing body cams. The digital body cams will be linked to the in-car camera, Frerichs said. The car camera will automatically download files.

However, the body cams will be manually downloaded.

The mobile computer system w...