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"SmartDraw is so simple and easy to use. Within minutes, I created a professional drawing. It's great!"
-Patrick Cote,
Private Investigator
Cote Investigations & Associates, LLC
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SMARTDRAW IN LAW ENFORCEMENT:
Law Enforcement Veteran Chooses SmartDraw for Legal Diagrams
CLIENT PROFILE:
Name:
Patrick Cote
Title:
Private Investigator
Organization:
Cote Investigations & Associates, LLC
Location:
Casa Grande, Arizona
Application:
Diagrams for criminal justice
CHALLENGE:
Create diagrams for criminal and civil case support.
SOLUTION:
Use SmartDraw to create timelines, floor plans, and more.
RESULTS:
Increased productivity, enhanced communications.
Patrick Cote is no stranger to criminal justice. He has more than thirty years experience in law enforcement, with the last eleven as a police chief in three states. He has published a book, Police Chief Managing Success, and now works as a private investigator at his own company, Cote Investigations & Associates, LLC. (See his website at www.coteinvestigations.com.)
Still, Patrick needed a little extra help. He needed an easy way to create diagrams for his work in criminal and civil cases and court preparation, such as timelines, floor plans, and other charts. He found SmartDraw on the Internet and decided to give it a try.
"The program was so simple and easy to use," said Patrick. "For example, I was able to quickly draw a diagram of a mobile home to show how it would have been very difficult to commit a crime in one room while there were people in another room. I imported the drawing into a Word® doc, and in a matter of minutes, I had a professional drawing. It was great!"
Patrick found that the SmartDraw Legal Edition automates the creation of legal graphics such as crime scene diagrams, trial graphics, accident reconstruction, evidence charts, flowcharts, and much more. Unlike other graphics programs that present users with a blank screen and expect them to draw, the SmartDraw Legal Edition uses templates tailored to each specific type of diagram—such as a crime scene. Users enter their information and SmartDraw does the rest: laying out the graphic automatically using built-in rules and professional design themes to guarantee polished, presentation-quality results in just a few minutes.
"I was also able to make a polished-looking timeline," said Patrick. "The attorney loved it!"
In addition, SmartDraw features one-click export to popular programs such as MS Word®, PowerPoint®, PDF, and more, so SmartDraw creations are easy to share with others.
"Everyone is very impressed with the charts I make in SmartDraw," said Patrick. "My diagrams look very professional. I recommend SmartDraw all the time…it's a great product!"
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