Re: The economics just don't stack up
95%+ of police work with computers is filling in electronic forms. Any web browser would do. Not really a typical use case. Hardly anyone in the real world is moving away from Microsoft OSs and / or Office on the desktop...
Well, that CERTAINLY makes a case for not blowing money on pointlessly expensive Office software then, doesn't it? If it's all the same you might as well use LO, and that happens to have in "Base" quite good form tools to jack things straight into a database as well. Again, free, but capable of working with real SQL databases instead of Access.