Police officers and department staff had been filling out all paperwork by hand because of the network outage.
The breakdown was not caused by a hacker, a conclusion drawn following a review by FBI cybersecurity specialists and a third-party consultant, police said.
The failure also took down the department's email system.
The 911 system, police radios, surveillance cameras and body-worn cameras were not affected by the network problem, police said.
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