CAD & dispatch › Using the CAD on duty
Go on duty in the CAD
Sign on with your department and callsign, skip the panel screen with a default, go off duty, and fix the messages that stop you signing on.
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CAD & dispatch › Using the CAD on duty
Post CAD announcements to the duty screens
Put a notice on the duty screens for everyone or chosen departments, make people acknowledge it, schedule it, and see who has read it.
CAD & dispatch › Using the CAD on duty
Supervise units on duty and sign them off
The tools supervisors get on duty: signing another unit off with a reason, checking on units whose status timer has run out, and reading every private message.
CAD & dispatch › Setting up the CAD
Build report templates for your units
Make the report forms units fill in on duty, with your own fields, required boxes, drop-down lists and links to people and vehicles on file. Load the starter templates, and switch diagrams on or off.
CAD & dispatch › Using the CAD on duty
CAD keyboard shortcuts and alert sounds
Every keyboard shortcut on the duty screens, the tones that play for calls, panics and messages, and how to mute or turn them down for yourself.
CAD & dispatch › Reports & records
Review and approve reports
Approve reports or send them back with a comment, from the control panel or on duty, plus citations, warnings and arrests that wait for approval.
CAD & dispatch › Using the CAD on duty
Run name, plate and serial lookups
Search people, plates, firearm serials and businesses while on duty, read what comes back, and know which units can search what.
CAD & dispatch › Using the CAD on duty
See supervisor stats for the CAD
Check open calls, units by status and today's response times on duty, and look back over up to 90 days of calls, response times and paperwork in the control panel.
CAD & dispatch › Using the CAD on duty
Send private messages and broadcasts in the CAD
Message another unit or a dispatcher privately, send a broadcast to every screen on duty or one department as dispatch, and know who can read what.
CAD & dispatch › Civilians & services
Set up banking, cards and loans
Turn on banking in the CAD, set your bank name, currency, account types and duty pay, and run the bank desk: accounts, adjustments, cards and loan decisions.
CAD & dispatch › Fire & EMS
Set up stations, apparatus, hydrants and hospitals
Add your fire stations, the engines and ambulances that run from them, hydrants and hospitals, and see how units use them on duty and in incident command.
CAD & dispatch › Live map
Choose a map and postal set for the live map
…, updated every couple of seconds. Dispatchers and units on duty open it from the CAD in its own window, so it can sit on a second screen. For the map to be useful, it has to match what your…
CAD & dispatch › Civilians & services
Create a civilian character
…acters are the people your members play when they're not on duty. Each one has a file in the CAD with their details, licences, vehicles and firearms. When an officer runs a name, plate or se…
CAD & dispatch › Using the CAD on duty
Create calls and dispatch units to them
…ils up to date and clear it when it's finished. Everyone on duty sees the same board, live, whichever CAD design they use. This article is written for dispatchers. Units can open their own c…
CAD & dispatch › Evidence & investigations
Log evidence and keep the chain of custody
…s, so the history always holds up. Officers log evidence on duty. Custodians, the people who run the evidence room, move it, hand it out, release it and destroy it, in the CAD or the control…
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