Warrant Tracking/Due Diligence
Domestic violence and the criminal justice system results of DV are a hot topic these days, as they should be. However, police are under a microscope on everything they do concerning DV incidents these days. PolicePro has incorporated this important area into our Warrants Tracking function.
The buzzphrase - and what you'd better be able to demonstrate you're on top of - is Due Diligence. Let someone run around out there with any warrant against him or her, much less a DV warrant - and you are putting yourself in a hot spot should that person end up committing another violent act, particularly against his or her wife, husband, or other domestic partner.
You may not catch everyone, but that's not what due diligence is about. It's about what did you do to TRY and prevent a problem?
Any activity against a person running around out there with a warrant on them can be logged in seconds in the Warrants area of PolicePro. Whether it's a routine mailing of a notice to appear in court, a cop knocking on the door of the last known address, or even a casual mention of the person from some citizen calling in - all this stuff should be captured, and it hardly ever is.
It is not enough to walk into court and say, We did all kinds of stuff to try and find this guy, without the documentation to back it up. With PolicePro and even a little bit of energy or structure, none of this will get away.
Warrant Tracking works just like Leads in the detective cases area to document the actions the police department takes to try and locate these people. Also included are search capabilities that isolate all open DV warrants with one click, so you can keep track of how many there are and what's going on with them.
When a warrant is executed, the record goes inactive but remains in the system, becoming yet another potentially valuable piece of information down the road someday.