BIS’ Mobile Unit Field Reporting System (orca2000+MUFRS) is a flexible application and productivity tool designed specifically for Public Safety.  BIS offers the foundation for integrated Mobile Information within your Law Enforcement environment and offers elements which take into consideration officer safety. All data can be transmitted by wireless transmission or synchronized when the officer reaches his station.  A number of communication protocols are supported.

Time savings for officers occur for everyone, every day of their shift. Since law enforcement agencies are forced to do more with fewer resources, this is an excellent way to meet these realities which face you!

Since the BIS RMS is designed in Oracle’s Developer 2000 environment, ALL available information pertaining to a specific person, vehicle, location, case, and so on, is linked via Oracle’s Internet based 10g Relational Data Base.  You drill down to the data which you want to see and stop whenever you have enough.

The ability to attach a printer, scanner, magnetic stripe reader for Driver’s Licenses, digital camera input, microphone for dictation, and even mobile fingerprint reader, allows for Citation issuance and other flexibilities either today or at any time in the future.

Key Benefits -

• orca2000+MUFRS is a subset to BIS’ highly acclaimed Records Management System, orca2000+RMS.  Hence this is not just a small adjunct to our stable of products, but rather an integrated application set which can easily be parameterized for each site.
• Officers are wirelessly connected to your database servers until dead spots are encountered.  Orca2000+MUFRS retains all data within the mobile unit until wireless communication is re-established at which point automatic synchronization occurs.  This is possible since data synchronization is provided by Oracle’s state of the art tools.  
• Easy access to the myriad of available information via the various searches, allowing an officer or detective access to historical information about a person, vehicle, location, warrants, arrests, etc.
• Reduces the officers’ time spent on paperwork, eliminating re-entry of data, and speeding up the turnaround time between report completion, capture and approval. 
• The Messaging/Notification module automatically notifies supervisors of action items and, in return, when they have approved and/or reviewed the reports, acknowledges the status of the reports to the officers allowing them to complete any needed items. 
• Depending on your policies, applications available in the field may include: crime/incident and arrest reporting via the Case Management module, traffic citations (including DUI’s), accident reporting, and field interviews.  Accident sketches can utilize Visio and other drawing tool formats.
• Data entry is only done once.  Hence, ONLY unique data required for a specific “form” is presented for data entry.  Numerous drop down boxes are provided to simplify data entry.  When the forms are printed all of the needed information is repeated on each form, properly formatted.
• Access to NCIC queries is provided.  Data entered on the MUFRS screens is broken down to meet state and national data formats.  Returned data can be parsed and also automatically updated to the data base. This, of course, provides a seamless solution between the field reporting functions which you choose to allow the officers to undertake in the field and the existing BIS orca2000+RMS system which resides on the server.
• The messaging systemallows you to integrate messaging/notification algorithms into the system. These behind the scene triggers send completed cases and reports to supervisors for approval, notify records management staff of key events, update additions to MNI, and so on. You set this up any way you want!
• MUFRS utilizes the Oracle or Oracle Lite relational database. Oracle is acknowledged by Fortune 1000 firms and government agencies as the “industrial strength” data base for large data bases and stabile, scalable environments. 
• MUFRS allows for the synchronization of various data tables on all remote computers/laptops used within an agency with the centralized RMS. This also includes PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). Data Synchronization assures that the same data is available to mobile users as well as those directly accessing the central computer’s database.
• This synchronization includes any updates to Master Code Tables (files) and programs on the remote mobile units.
• Easy to use, front-end search screens are available for all of the applications discussed. The officer can enter as little or as much information as is known. 
• During data entry, database validation occurs automatically for the officers. This data integrity is especially important to provide only valid location, people, vehicle, charge information, and so on.  Of course, once information about a topic is provided to the user, ALL of the occurrences for that topic are displayed on a selection list allowing the officer to obtain as much detailed information as is needed. This ability to drill down deeper and deeper into the database to obtain more and more details, allows the officer to control how little or how much information he or she seeks.
• Being able to enter the data on “template” forms which you are accustomed to usually is the most efficient and quickest method of implementation. Since the screens were developed with re-usable objects, changing a screen in one place automatically changes it in another, allowing you to have a consistent look and feel throughout the system, even after changes are made.
• MUFRS automates the Citations issuance. The officer can even scan the license if licenses have magnetic stripes or bar codes. Behind the scenes, an RMS search of the MNI offers immediate validation of the person for whom the infraction is being written. An NCIC search can automatically be launched behind the scenes to the State database and eventually to the FBI. If no further details are available on this person, at the push of a button, the portable printer generates the citation..
• Should the suspect search reflect open warrants, holds or other reasons to detain the person, again all of the desired information can be printed for the officer on the local printer. An incident can immediately be initiated via the Case Entry module.
• If the officer has a need to obtain additional evidence, still camera images, voice recordings, streaming video and other attachments are all available to them. All of these can be conveniently attached to the Narrative portion of the case. 
• BIS also offers you the ability to dictate the narratives and field interviews. These voice files can simply be attached to the data records (Case, Citation, FI, etc.)  With today’s technology, Dragon Systems, IBM’s Via Voice and Phillips voice engine all offer a very high degree of reliability in voice translation capability.  The voice file can be heard while visually seeing the translated data in order for the administrative staff in the office to detect where the narrative is not properly translated.
• With exciting new developments on PDAs (personal data assistant), the data available just a few years ago ONLY on large computers, is now as close as one’s fingertips when fighting crime right on the streets! 

 

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