CAPTAIN NEWS Application Announced

Fascilitates Searching Historical Bulletins.

October 1, 2006...Glastonbury, CT. A new feature in CAPTAIN enables officers to improve the manner in which they broadcast critical alerts to others and share routine departmental information. Called NEWS, this feature integrates with existing CAPTAIN messaging and greatly expands its usefulness.

An officer in the field can now share up-to-the-minute information with fellow officers in his agency, or across the region. All with just a few keystrokes. While some alerts are time critical, others may be important for many days or weeks. At the time information is entered specific addressing and expiration information is entered by the author. The system tracks all access to each information record, as well as any modifications made by the original author.

NEWS allows an officer to search historical messages, quickly identify the author, and take the appropriate action. It is expected to gain wide use in BOLO (be on the lookout for) announcements.

NEWS can also be used to post and archive departmental or shift notices to individuals, groups of individuals, or entire departments. These postings can contain text as well as attachments. For example weekly assignements, or vehicle status might be included.

As a web application, NEWS represents a continued migration towards the integration of internet based and open source technologies into te CAPTAIN platform.

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