Mantoloking PD in New Jersey has really perked up their police car graphics. With the new flat light racks, these things look pretty good (unless they’re behind you with those lights turned on, of course).

The PolicePro Main Menu has been around forever, in various iterations. We’re getting ready to leave it behind, in favor of a more useful, user-intelligent Dashboard.

What the Menu lacked was that user awareness to make it actually useful. The Dashboard “knows” who is signed on and loads different content based on not only who that person is, but also what their role is within the agency. Where a patrol officer might see a generic list of currently open calls along with recent Alert flagged calls (among other things), a detective will get his or her own open cases along with that basic list... and a regional or station supervisor in a larger outfit will dispense with both, in favor perhaps of a chart of activity by station, region, zone or whatever.

The current menu, as it has appeared for the past two years - attractive but limited in function:




The new Dashboard, obviously unfinished, but heading in the right direction:



I particularly like the idea of an Officer Awareness list, being anything that has been flagged as safety related over a range of days. Should an officer receive a call to a ‘hot” address, we’ll add a special alert that will display right in the patrol car as a Heads Up before he or she ever pulls up outside the location.