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Clearwater Police Department Case Study: 12,000 Reports and 4,911 Hours Saved with AI Report Writing

Clearwater PD has completed 12,000 documents with Policereports.ai, saving 4,911 officer hours and $196,449, with 3,192 report checks.

Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan
CPO
Clearwater Police Department Case Study: 12,000 Reports and 4,911 Hours Saved with AI Report Writing

The Clearwater Police Department in Florida has used Policereports.ai for 518 days. Officers have completed 12,000 documents and saved 4,911 hours, worth $196,449. At six months they were at 4,787 reports and 1,630 hours. Both numbers have since more than doubled.

Clearwater PD results: 12,000 documents, 4,911 hours saved, $196,449 saved, 3,192 report checks

Patrol first, quality built in

Clearwater uses the platform the way a busy city department needs to: high-volume patrol reports, checked before they reach a supervisor. Officers ran 3,192 report checks in total, more than a quarter of everything they wrote.

Chart of Clearwater PD documents by type, including report checks, crash narratives and Mental Health Unit reports

Beyond patrol

Specialty units have built it into their own work too. Clearwater’s Mental Health Unit has written 882 team reports on the platform, and traffic officers 1,286 crash narratives.

The results

  • 4,911 hours is 614 eight-hour shifts back on Clearwater’s streets.
  • Annualized, about 3,460 hours a year, the working time of 1.7 full-time officers.
  • 140 to 165 documents a week through September and October 2026.
  • $196,449 saved since June 2025.

See the checker on your reports

See the report checker run against your own report types. Book a 20-minute demo, or run your numbers in the savings calculator.

How we measure: documents and hours come from the agency’s Policereports.ai usage dashboard. Savings are valued at $40 per officer hour.

Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan
Chief Product Officer & Former Lieutenant

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