PolicePro 10: Use of Force reporting
03/05/2009 09:27 Filed in: PolicePro
Police officers and departments are now operating in
a world where every single thing they do,
individually or institutionally, is sooner or later
going to be scrutinized or asked about by someone.
The more we can do to help agencies and officers
document things that happen - especially
controversial situations - the better it is going to
be for everyone.
So we arrive at Use of Force, or Response to Resistance reporting. Every agency with an interest in protecting itself as well as its officers either has or is getting ready to have Use of Force report requirements. Documenting what actually happened and why is the best insurance against a future nightmare when a defendant eventually comes back with some cooked up story about injuries he sustained, the way he was treated, or whatever.
Tied to an intelligently crafted Use of Force policy, this is your best way to deal with this lousy reality. PolicePro is going to make it easier.
PolicePro’s new Use of Force reporting is, like everything else in the system, tied directly to the incident it stems from. An officer can complete a Use of Force report in just a few minutes and get on with his or her day. All the source material he or she needs for the report is right there on the PolicePro screen. When the report is completed, a supervisor can confirm it in an instant. Cases that need reporting can be isolated in a hot second by just running a Saved Find request or requests for incident types that generally require reports.
And like other critical areas of PolicePro, Use of Force reports themselves can be restricted as to who can access or read them. The only difference is that this time, we leave the arrow icon that indicates the existance of the report or reports, so supervisors can in fact confirm they exist. The actual report content can be restricted wtih our usual Need To Know logic.
Necessary evil? Probably, though this kind of reporting can keep an officer and a department out of trouble right from the start. Worth doing? Absolutely, every time.
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Sample Dispatch Ticket on a fictional Assault event:
Like everywhere else, clicking the Use of Force tab displays a decision window:
Click Yes, and a new Use of Force/Resistance Report pops up with the case reference information already created:
Printed output at the end:
Like everything else in PolicePro, resistance reporting (sounds better, yes?) is completely searchable. Output can be to paper or PDF.
Eleven years now and we never stop thinking about how to make PolicePro better, easier to use, and continually relevant. Force/Resistance reporting is a classic example of why PolicePro is Still The One.
So we arrive at Use of Force, or Response to Resistance reporting. Every agency with an interest in protecting itself as well as its officers either has or is getting ready to have Use of Force report requirements. Documenting what actually happened and why is the best insurance against a future nightmare when a defendant eventually comes back with some cooked up story about injuries he sustained, the way he was treated, or whatever.
Tied to an intelligently crafted Use of Force policy, this is your best way to deal with this lousy reality. PolicePro is going to make it easier.
PolicePro’s new Use of Force reporting is, like everything else in the system, tied directly to the incident it stems from. An officer can complete a Use of Force report in just a few minutes and get on with his or her day. All the source material he or she needs for the report is right there on the PolicePro screen. When the report is completed, a supervisor can confirm it in an instant. Cases that need reporting can be isolated in a hot second by just running a Saved Find request or requests for incident types that generally require reports.
And like other critical areas of PolicePro, Use of Force reports themselves can be restricted as to who can access or read them. The only difference is that this time, we leave the arrow icon that indicates the existance of the report or reports, so supervisors can in fact confirm they exist. The actual report content can be restricted wtih our usual Need To Know logic.
Necessary evil? Probably, though this kind of reporting can keep an officer and a department out of trouble right from the start. Worth doing? Absolutely, every time.
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Sample Dispatch Ticket on a fictional Assault event:
Like everywhere else, clicking the Use of Force tab displays a decision window:
Click Yes, and a new Use of Force/Resistance Report pops up with the case reference information already created:
Printed output at the end:
Like everything else in PolicePro, resistance reporting (sounds better, yes?) is completely searchable. Output can be to paper or PDF.
Eleven years now and we never stop thinking about how to make PolicePro better, easier to use, and continually relevant. Force/Resistance reporting is a classic example of why PolicePro is Still The One.
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