Activating A House Watch
The concept of Active House Watches allows your agency to retain historical House Watches 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 House Watches.
If a house watch was NOT activated when created, it must be activated for officers to use it.
House Watches 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 House Watches.
Locate the House Watch and in the Activate column click the Activate button for the specific House Watch.
You will then be on the Activate House Watch 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 House Watch 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.
When done, click Create Activation.
The House Watch will now be visible to officers on the House Watch page.
Assigning an employee is a vanity feature. Although only one or more may be assigned, ANY employee can document house watch activity on the activation.
Example email sent to employee(s)
