We are excited to present a major upgrade for Reporting.
In this release, we included Complaints, Commendations, Pursuits, and Crashes. You will be able to filter your complete reports and view them in a unified way with Viewer.
Viewer by Smartforce® is the result of months of work. It makes it easy to view and print reports. For now, is connected to Reporting but we are just getting started.
Furthermore, we included a lot of enhancements and performance improvements to our apps to make your hard work easier.
We have developed a new way to use data to drive decisions on internal process improvement by searching reports in our newest version of SmartForce®. You can customize filters for the wanted output, export data to the most widely used data analytics format, and much, much more. Reporting is the name of this new application. It is a powerful and effective technology that can help your department understand its performance, improvements in training, and transparency, We look forward to this release and would like to share the excitement with you.
We listen carefully to all the feedback our clients suggest. For this reason, we also included a collection of stability improvements and suggested enhancements based on your observations.
We hope this article serves as a first look at what is coming.
Reporting
It’s more than a search engine, it’s a platform. It’s the foundation on which you can personalize and build the analysis you need for your Professional Standards reports.
For this first version, we started with Use of Force reports gathered from our Response to Resistance application. After the reports pass the Supervision levels, the personnel who is allowed to access The Reporting System will be able to filter their data deeply.
Filters
Once you choose the application you want to filter, a box will pop up. In this box, you will see the sections and fields of data to choose from. You can add up to 10 filters to do deep and custom searches. Once you apply your filters, the results return immediately.
Change Filters
Then, if you want to start from scratch, you can easily clear the filters.
If you want to add or remove filters, you will see an option for “More Filters”. It opens a panel where you can choose the filters you want to add/remove. This configuration is personal and will be saved on your computer/device.
Output
Once you apply a combination of filters, you will see the results sorted by Incident Date.
If you want to expand or shrink the columns of the results table you will see the option to “Set Columns”. A panel opens where you can choose and save the columns you want to see and export. This configuration works in the same way the filter settings do. Each box, Filters, and Output work separately and each one has its own settings that will be saved locally.
Exporting Data
We want to help you build the custom reports you will need. For this reason, we provide the user with an export format that data analysis uses. If you use Excel, you will be able to easily import the file and then proceed with the process you are used to doing.
Access
Information security is our highest concern. Therefore, we add one more layer of security where only a select group of agency staff will be able to access this information.
Upcoming enhancements
Soon we will add Complaints, Commendations, Pursuits and Crashes to the Reporting search engine.
Also, we plan to work on charts.
Learn more
Please visit our resources page where we have posted educational videos. Also, you can visit our blog where we periodically post articles you might enjoy.
Most programs, applications, and graphical user interfaces are designed to be bright, look friendly, and appear upbeat. For most entertainment, networking and other common purposes this is fine, but for law enforcement officers traveling in their cruisers at night- darker themes are much more practical.
For police on patrol after sunset, or during other difficult lighting conditions, looking at a computer screen can make a person unable to see what is outside of the vehicle. It could pose a hazard for police who will be temporarily blinded to what is going on outside of the cruiser while their eyes adjust to natural light. Conversely, brighter backlighting and brighter application themes are preferable in the day time for similar reasons.
Google Chrome High Contrast Extension
This simple browser extension allows users to invert the color scheme to make web pages easier to read at night. The high contrast setting lets you browse the Internet using your choice of a selection of high-contrast skin modes designed to be easier on the eyes in different lighting conditions.
Clicking on the icon in the upper right menu bar inverts the colors of web pages, making otherwise blindingly bright black-on-white pages white-on-black or vice-verse depending on what you need for the given lighting conditions. Users also have the option to use an inverted monochrome filter if the colors begin to look strange.
When you install this extension, all pages are “inverted”, so black becomes white and white becomes black. Press the “browser action” icon in the toolbar to toggle it on and off, or customize your settings on a per-site basis. Users may also make use of the convenient keyboard shortcut to quickly change the browser’s settings while running Chrome.
Blank Your Monitor
Firefox offers a similar extension called Blank Your Monitor which inverts the colors for easier night reading. It also comes with a wider range of options than Google’s version.
Other extensions attempt to change the website colors, but they frequently disable many popular websites. Only High Contrast and Blank Your monitor apply filters to your page that can invert most things- except photos without stopping the script and ending your session.
These extensions also come with time-sensitive settings which enable them to automatically change the filter configurations based on the time of day. This frees up officers patrolling at dawn, dusk, after dark, and during starkly bright daytime conditions to look at their computer screens without having to wait for their eyes adjust before seeing what’s going on outside of the car. The automatic settings free them up from having to worry about how to switch filters when the light changes – which could certainly become an issue during long shifts.
When Peace officers are responding to dangerous situations, they cannot afford to waste the critical seconds it can take for their eyes to adjust. These apps are not just a great convenience, they may also save lives.
Adventos SmartForce™
We at Adventos considered the needs of law enforcement and have upgraded our solution SmartForce™ with a night mode theme that uses a palette with dark tones. Doing this, the display shines less and decreases the light emitted by the screen.
Between 6am and 6pm the theme is changed automatically to day mode and between 6pm and 6am is changed to night mode. Users can switch manually clicking a button to switch the theme.
Parties interested in the SmartForce™ Agency Management System and how it improves intelligence, click here. After watching the demo video, you are invited to request a free trial of the agency management system to try for yourselves.
Gonzalo Cervantes
