Activating A Directed Patrol
The concept of Active Directed Patrols allows your agency to retain historical Directed Patrols within the system and Re-Activate them in the future to document additional activity at that specific location. You can also view Reports on historical non-active Directed Patrols.
Directed Patrols must be Active to be able to be used by your officers.
From the management sub-navigation click
You will see a list of your Agency's Directed Patrols.
Locate the Directed Patrol and in the Activate column click the Activate button for the specific Directed Patrol.
You will then be on the Activate Directed Patrol Form.
Fill out the fields:
- Start Date is required.
- End Date is optional, if you provide an end date the system can automatically close the Directed Patrol X days after the end date. (X days is customizable to your agency)
- Start Time is optional
- End Time is optional
- Assign Employees - can be used to assign this specific activation to one or more employees.
- Send email notification to assigned person(s) - sends an email to each employee if togged on.
- General Notes can be used to provide details for this specific activation of the House Watch.
- General Notes can be used to provide details for this specific activation of the Directed Patrol.
When done, click Create Activation.
The Directed Patrol will now be visible to officers on the Directed Patrol page.
Assigning an employee is a vanity feature. Although only one or more may be assigned, ANY employee can document directed patrol activity on the activation.
Example email sent to employee
