InterActLAW

Solutions for Law Enforcement

Law enforcement professionals are faced with myriad challenges every day. They often must walk into incidents with very little insight into what they'll face—resulting in potentially dangerous situations. To protect the communities they serve, officers need instant access to incident and law enforcement records so they can quickly assess a situation, no matter where they are. Swift, accurate communication is key to speeding response times, determining the appropriate response to an incident, and ensuring the safety of officers and citizens alike.

Moreover, we must free officers from cumbersome report generation, which takes valuable time away from patrols. The less time officers spend on low-value tasks like writing reports, the more time they can spend out in the community.

As former 911 directors and police officers, we have a deep commitment to providing powerful yet intuitive tools to support law enforcement. Our flexible software solutions:

  • Put vital information from NCIC, NLETS, and other databases, into the hands of dispatchers with automatic queries from InterAct CAD using InterAct CIS and integration to records management systems, like InterAct RMS ; and directly to officers with InterAct Mobile on MDTs or InterActPocketCop on mobile devices
  • Speed incident response times by immediately plotting a caller's location on the InterAct GIS map display as soon as the call comes in from our Next Generation 911 Call Controller, InterAct NG911. Response times are further reduced by identifying the closest and most appropriate officer(s) to dispatch to the scene using InterActAVL
  • Vastly reduce the amount of time spent writing and approving Uniform Crime (UCR) and NIBRS reports with InterAct's field reporting solutions
  • Promote information sharing across agencies to help apprehend criminals
  • Produce detailed crime statistics using InterAct RMS to support decision making such as budget increases and workforce allocation

Our goal is to arm officers with timely data. By integrating the entire incident lifecycle, we help drive down incident response times. There's no more disconnect between officers and dispatchers. Officers have immediate access to all the information the dispatcher sees, from the suspect's description and photo to the proper response scenario. From the ability to run tags right from their BlackBerry device to knowing an individual's priors before arriving on scene, officers have the information they need to make swift, often lifesaving decisions.

Law Records Management for Smaller Agencies

InterActLaw is a fully-featured law records management solution (RMS) suitable for smaller agencies. InterAct Public Safety Systems works closely with your organization to customize the core technologies to match your specific environment. From simple look-and-feel changes to custom-reports and modules, we create a solution to address your unique situation.

Our synchronization and data-sharing technologies are particularly suitable for customized solutions in decentralized or multi-tiered organizations. InterActLaw brings many benefits to each part of your law enforcement agency - from the officer on the street to the council members in their chamber.

Benefits of InterActLaw

  • Increased visibility of the Police Force - Since officers can work in the field as easily as they can work in the office, they will be more visible within the community. InterActLaw reduces the time it takes to complete paperwork by up to 40%.
  • Faster resolution of cases - InterActLaw enables officers to make quick connections among people, organizations, and cases. This assists investigators by giving them potential leads in their cases, and enables them to close cases more quickly.
  • Clear and comprehensive police reports - Officers can retrieve information from InterActLaw quickly and in a variety of clear and understandable formats.
  • Reduced roadside down-time related to citations - Data-collection can be automated through barcode scanners and magnetic stripe readers. Additionally, InterActLaw can print citations, parking tickets, and warnings on in-car printers. Automating the citation-writing process reduces roadside down-time.

The following steps demonstrate how a case travels from dispatch through to monthly statistical reports.

Step 1: The Call

All case-related data is automatically added to the involved persons' Master Name Indexes, where it becomes available for consideration the next time any of your personnel deal with the same person. Master Indexes for Names, Locations, Vehicles, and Property allow you to see connections that a paper-based RMS would never afford you.

  • Record all officer activity
  • Generate activity reports by officer, time, zone, municipality, or type of call
  • Easily convert calls into full Cases, Citations, Parking Tickets, Warnings, Crash Reports, or Alarm Billings
  • Quickly access Master Index of People, Organizations, Vehicles, and Addresses
  • Record activity for multiple municipalities
  • Use "hot-keys" for quick data-entry
  • Include multiple contacts and vehicles for a single call
  • Allow supervisors to approve or delete calls
  • Tight integration with InterAct CAD enables automatic and manual search of Master Name, Master Vehicle, and Master Location Indices upon creation of a Call for Service.

Step 2: The Case

After the call is escalated to a case, the reporting officer (and any other assigned officers) add various details and documents to the case file. These details could include photos, videos, scanned documents, crime scene drawings, physical evidence, injury descriptions, state or agency specific forms, and narratives. When the officer(s) complete the case report, they submit it for supervisory review.

  • Compile all case details from multiple officers into a unified case report
  • Attach Photos, Scanned Documents, and Custom Forms
  • Attach or Generate Arrest Paperwork
  • Attach Crime Scene drawings
  • Easily access and manipulate any of your active cases through the Tree View
  • Track Modus Operandi for the case and for individual actors
  • Attach Search Warrants (PA) and Citations to a case file
  • Maintain Evidence and Property with complete bar coding capabilities
  • Produce consistent, error-free case reports that are ready for prosecution, statistical reporting, and state-specific reports

Step 3: Property and Evidence

Any physical property can be added to the case file (in CaseBuilder), and also managed through the security-controlled Property Management application.

  • Attach property/evidence to calls or cases
  • Manage property check-in / check-out / disposal via barcode or manually entry
  • NCIC-driven property categories
  • Print disposition, chain-of-custody, and inventory reports
  • Define your own property containers
  • Control user-level access to property management

Step 4: Administrative Review

The case file can go through various stages of supervisory review. Supervisors may approve or reject reports, send notes back to the reporting officer, correct errors, assign additional personnel to work on a case, or generate UCR/NIBRS reports based on the case.

  • Manage the case work flow for the entire department
  • Produce numerous statistical and administrative reports
  • Track personnel records, including training, equipment, and notations
  • Extensively customize the system yourself

Step 5: Statistics

State and local administrative agencies often want to see summary statistical information. Over 50 standard reports are built into InterActLaw, and ad-hoc and user-created Crystal Reports are also possible.

Step 6: Master Indices

All case-related data is automatically added to the involved persons' Master Name Indices, where it becomes available for consideration the next time any of your personnel deal with the same person. Master Indices for Names, Locations, Vehicles, and Property allow you to see connections that a paper-based RMS would never afford you.

Benefits to the Officer

  • Work from Anywhere - Using our advanced synchronization program, the work that you do on your computer will be seamlessly integrated with other people's work (and vice versa) whenever your computers are connected. Anything that you could do formerly from the office, you can now do from a laptop in the field with InterActLaw. Synchronization gives you the freedom to manage your police data anywhere at any time; with or without a network connection.
  • Improved Safety - With instant access to case histories of people, organizations, addresses, vehicles, and property available in the field, officers are better prepared for the situations they face.
  • Ease of Use and Flexibility - InterActLaw was designed by officers with a range of computer-skills. There are multiple ways to perform many common tasks. The system is touch screen friendly on MDTs, and allows consistent data-entry through drop-down lists. Person and vehicle information can often be collected through automated barcode scanners and mag-stripe readers. The exact same program is used in the office and in the field.
  • Natural data-collection workflow - InterActLaw was designed to collect case-information in whatever order seems most natural for the user. The logical "next-step" in data collection is often available on multiple screens, so users do not have to close-and-open multiple applications to progress through a case.
  • Photos - The Synchronization process makes all photos available on every machine. This could include case photos, person photos, and evidence photos.

Benefits to the Investigator

  • Make Connections - InterActLaw will help you make connections among people, locations, organizations, evidence, and cases. You are able to create custom queries to probe for relevant investigative data and store those queries for subsequent use. InterActLaw will also provide some guidance in identifying relationships of which you should be aware.
  • Master Indexes and Super Master Indexes - The Master Indexes for people, organizations, addresses, vehicles, and property show your agency's complete historical interaction with those entities. With Super Master Indexes of similar items, you can query neighboring agencies for pointer records to similar items in their databases.
  • Physical Descriptions and Known Associates - Tracking and querying advanced physical descriptors for people is easy in InterActLaw. As your department starts tracking these descriptors, as well as known associates and affiliations, you will have some additional tools at your disposal to locate previously unknown suspects.
  • Modus Operandi - InterActLaw enables you to record MO for people and for cases. You can define custom MO categories for tracking and querying. MO information appears on all Master Indexes.
  • Photo Management - Digital photos and scanned documents are everywhere in InterActLaw. With our embedded Photo Management Application, you can easily export photos for use in other applications, produce Photo Lineups, missing-person posters, and wanted-person posters.

Benefits to the Administrator

  • Oversee and manage all cases - Our Admin Review module lets administrators see every officer's cases from start to- finish. Easily approve and reject case reports, assign supplemental officers to existing cases, assign final case and court dispositions, and manage UCR classifications and Arrest Clearances through a single interface.
  • Manage Personnel - Track training, equipment, and certifications for personnel. Record dated notations, such as disciplinary actions commendations, or promotions. Define security levels for officers or groups of officers that allow or deny them access to parts of the system.
  • UCR Reports - Depending on the state, InterActLaw may be able to generate your UCR paperwork automatically. For non-UCR states, InterActLaw can help generate the statistics you need to fill out state-mandated reports quickly.
  • Statistical/Analytical Reports - Dozens of statistical and analytical reports come standard with InterActLaw. We can also work with you to create custom reports.
  • Reliability - Our synchronization model enables your officers to work from any computer, anytime. Automated periodic updates keep your software up-to-date and cutting-edge.

Confidential Informant Management

  • Track CI names by CI Number.
  • See case involvement for CIs.
  • Track payments to CIs.

Crash Reports (various states)

  • Collect state-specific data for crash reports.
  • Print reports or submit e-crash reports to the state.

Investigative Tools

  • Design custom queries of cases, people, MO, property, photos, etc.
  • Track relationships among people and among organizations.
  • Query data from neighboring municipalities with Super Master Indices.
  • Track outstanding warrants, registered sex offenders, and parole/probation/incarceration data.
  • Track Confidential Informants.

Citations, Parking Tickets, and Warnings (also in MobileSynchCite)

  • Record Traffic and Non-Traffic Citations, Parking Tickets, or Traffic Warnings.
  • Print Citations, Tickets, and Warnings on Standard or Custom forms.
  • Manage Payments for Parking Tickets.
  • Age parking tickets into reminders, added-fines, or citations.
  • Convert Warnings into Citations.
  • Synchronize with MobileSynchCite on a hand held computer.

Other

  • Civil Process.
  • Photo line-ups.
  • Missing and Wanted Person Photos.
  • Dynamically-generated Master Name Index.
  • Drivers License and Vehicle Registration Scanning.

Data Sharing

InterActLaw enables you to securely share your data within your department and with other regional, state, or federal law enforcement agencies.

  • All data is automatically synchronized to every designated computer within your agency.
  • Pointer-data can be made available to external agencies.
  • Query data from neighboring municipalities with Super Master Indices.
  • The Super Master Indices allow you to query people, organizations, vehicles, and addresses from external agencies.

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