The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is in the third day of an outage of its computer-aided dispatch system in its vehicles, leaving deputies to resort to old methods as they respond to calls.

The archaic computer dispatch system for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department remained out of commission on Thursday after crashing on New Year’s Eve, forcing deputies to handle all calls by radio,

Dec. 31, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been manually tracking and responding to calls for service, using only their radios, phones, pen and notepad, after the department’s computer-aided dispatch program crashed and became inoperable,