Our team has developed an electronic case routing incident management enterprise system called eCrime. This system will be totally replacing its ULTRA predecessor. eCrime is an application in the MOVE suite of law enforcement products and it contains Uniformed Crime Reporting forms. Capturing, storing, and retrieving quality data facilitates better strategic plans to fight crime and keep citizens safe.
Features
100% compliant with the National Incident Base Reporting System (NIBRS)
Secure authentication access
Faster and more accurate persons and vehicle data with the integration of MOVE import data feature
Faster and more accurate location data with the integration of GPS and Map Click import data feature
Easy and intuitive user interface
Templates to allow customized preset values
Real-time business rules validations based upon NIBRS and local ordinances
Data is readily available for searching, reporting, and mapping
Data submission to vendors, criminal justice center, and NIBRS central data repository
The UA Safety App provides students and employees with immediate access to information in case of an emergency. Features include a built-in GPS to every campus building and shelter locations, AEDs and safety guidelines for potential hazards.
Users also receive exclusive UA Alerts and current UAPD advisories for up-to-date information. Additional features include National Weather Service Information for Tuscaloosa County and an emergency contact list for instant dialing with one push.
The safety app is available for download on iOS and Android devices.
Features
The opening page displays UA Alerts, UAPD advisories and weather alerts.
Users can search to locate tornado shelters, refuge areas, and medical resources.
Easily get directions to any campus building or storm shelter.
The goal of the Alabama Online Insurance Verification System (OIVS) was to create an effective method for implementing the Mandatory Liability Insurance (MLI) law that became effective on January 1, 2013. Development was a joint effort of CAPS and the Alabama Department of Revenue (ADOR) in FY2013.
OIVS includes a management portal and complete back-end infrastructure to support the new requirements of the law, including a role-based online portal for end-to-end management of the MLI process. It implemented a case management infrastructure so that all MLI case correspondences (calls, payments, images, etc.) are now being appropriately logged and retrieved. Citizens can now go online and respond to MLI issues that they have.
We continue to maintain, secure, and expand (as needed) the back-end servers, network, and security appliances that host various ADOR applications in order to provide a reliable, secure and redundant data storage and web infrastructure for ADOR.
CAPS has provided marketing campaigns to raise awareness about the forthcoming changes to the Mandatory Liability Insurance laws, chiefly the development and deployment of the Online Insurance Verification System (OIVS) and the enforcement mechanisms that will be put in place as a result.
eSearch is an administrative website that has been developed to be used in conjunction with eCite. Court clerks and magistrates are given access to the site to view tickets, print tickets, mark the status of tickets, view the case associated with that ticket, and search by court date among other things. There are various search fields that enable court personnel and to ascertain a tremendous amount and array of information instantaneously.
eSwear is a virtual swearing process that allows the officer to swear to the authenticity of the ticket and the clerk to confirm via a touch-screen kiosk. We believe Alabama is the first state to implement such a system. eSearch is used in conjunction with eSwear but eSearch can also be used for courts that do not have the eSwear system.
These programs were developed in cooperation with the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts.
ADVANCE is a powerful web portal dashboard that allows users to analyze and visualize electronic data in a variety of ways. Any database can be configured to display in an ADVANCE dashboard.
Currently the eCite, eCrash, and eWeight databases have been put into ADVANCE. Other databases will be added.
ADVANCE was developed through sponsorship from the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center and the Alabama Office of Highway Safety. ADVANCE is individually password protected for use by law enforcement personnel.
Features
Numerous source databases
Displays summary data
Performs dynamic analysis
Searches records
Applies filters to data
Generates maps based on GIS
Does side-by-side data comparisons
Drill down tab for specific filtering of data
Uses rapid CARE Processing Engine
Can view/print eCite tickets and eCrash reports
Data sources are updated nightly for timely data
CARE Online Analysis tab for frequency, crosstabs and more
Report tab for routine reports
Exports data, charts and graphs to Excel or as an image
Mobile Officer Virtual Environment (MOVE) was developed for officers to use on laptops in their cars, not on a desktop in the office. It was designed to combine the officer’s critical software tools onto one screen and for them to work together seamlessly.
eCrash is an electronic traffic crash reporting and transmission procedure system.
The eCrash system, like eCite, is a process-level solution to the outdated and time-consuming paper crash report form used by law enforcement and the court system. Crash reports generated through eCrash are quick, accurate, secure, and legible.
eCrash is more than a form. The development of eCrash began as a workflow solution for Alabama law enforcement’s processing of over 130,000 traffic crash reports annually. It was solidified after the state’s decision to require MMUCC compliant reports. CAPS, therefore, developed the eCrash system as a means of collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data and making that data easily accessible by all involved agencies
eCrash enables law enforcement to prepare MMUCC-5 compliant crash forms 100% electronically.
eCrash is utilized by officers in the field to document traffic crash reports and transmit the data to a server repository. Officers use the same equipment (scanner combined with a laptop, notebook or tablet PC) and software environment (MOVE) for both eCrash and eCite.
A full suite of administrative tools is available through MOVE to support the needed backend processing of crash forms and the approval and archiving of the crash data.
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Features & MOVE Integration
Driver’s license scanning (reads all 50 states)
Auto-Population of DL and GPS information
Integrates with crash diagramming applications, such as Easy Street Draw and ScenePD
Crash Report Validation to minimize errors + MMUCC 5 compliant
Eliminates redundant data entry
Improved timeliness of data
Electronic submission allows for paperless system + Web portal for supervisor approval of crash report + Web portal for analysis
Windows 7 or later compatible
Access to searchable LETS data
Find the current officer’s GPS location
Transfer the record and submit it for supervisory approval
Correct any faults in the record found by supervisors
Print the record at the roadside
Includes crash location functionality and crash diagram support
Design & Technology
eCrash transformed a major hurdle of crash data reporting by enabling the entry of crash data as close to the crash scene as possible. The eCrash system provides full-scale consistency and fewer interpretation errors in crash data.
An effortless and uncomplicated design was important to project partner, Alabama Department of Public Safety, and resulted in the following design features:
Individual reports customized to reflect any number of involved drivers, units, persons, pedestrians, or other non-motorists
Required report sections remain highlighted in red until complete
Data elements are tracked and a validation check prevents the report from being submitted with incomplete data
Electronic submission reduces duplicate efforts and provide immediate access to report data
The eCrash system was developed concurrently with Alabama’s initiative to change to MMUCC-compatible crash reports. MUCC, a voluntary data collection guideline, was developed in 1998 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) to encourage greater uniformity. The MMUCC guideline identifies a minimum set of motor vehicle crash data elements and their attributes that States should consider collecting and including in their State crash data system. The current version of eCrash is compatible with MMUCC-5, the most current version of the guideline.
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Inquiries
eCite can be adapted for any state or municipality. If you are interested in implementing eCite, another CAPS product, or working with CAPS on a custom solution, we want to hear from you!
Training Manuals
An eCrash User Guide and an eCrash Data Element Training Manual are available upon request for eCrash users. Direct requests to: care@cs.ua.edu.
The Critical Analysis Reporting Environment (CARE) is a data analysis software package originally designed for problem identification and countermeasure development in traffic safety applications.
It uses advanced analytical and statistical techniques to generate valuable information directly form data.
Using CARE’s step-by-step on screen menus, it is easy to turn data into enlightening information.
CARE provides:
descriptive statistics
information mining
geographical information system access
roadway engineering support
dashboard support
CARE’s dashboard support includes access to real-time statistics on key law enforcement systems including:
traffic citations
crash reports
criminal incident reports
other critical systems for which we have developed field data capture software
Dashboards have been deployed for:
police agencies
traffic engineers
traffic safety stakeholders
While its primary use is for traffic safety, CARE can be used to process any database including:
emergency medical services
medical data
nursing data
questionnaires
criminal justice
The CARE software for traffic safety applications is available free of charge. In order to take full advantage of CARE, existing data must be converted into a CARE dataset. In the case of a state, initial state CARE data sets can be created by having the state’s current database read by CARE’s Extract=Translate-Load (ETL) to produce the various CARE datasets that form the CARE warehouse. CAPS can create the initial state CARE dataset for your state for a reasonable fee. Contact Us.
The CARE software exists in both a desktop version for Windows OS and a Web version. CARE can be downloaded here or installed from a CD. Additionally, some highway safety CARE capabilities are also available online at the CARE Online Analysis site.
CARE is an award-winning program:
NHTSA 1995 Administrator’s Public Service Award
Runner-up for the 2015 ATSIP Best Practice Award.
Using the CARE program will undoubtedly assist the traffic safety program of any organization that chooses to use it.
MapClick is a mapping application that is integrated into the MOVE framework. Location information from MapClick is stored in Move as objects that can be populated into eCite, eCrash or any of the applications residing in MOVE.
It has multiple layers for coordinates, node numbers, link numbers, road names, road codes and milepoints. With the layers tool, users can get details about layers, toggle between them, and turn them off.
Users can click a spot on the map and be provided with the two nearest nodes, the GPS coordinates,and an address. The user can populate this information into the various MOVE applications.
MapClick works independently, with an internet connection, or when paired with a GPS device:
independently: using location information stored within the program
internet connection: adds real-time location information from Google
GPS device: enables tracking, which shows the user’s car on the map and saves the current location
