PROS Flashcards

(74 cards)

1
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What is PROS

A

Police Reporting & Occurrence System

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What is RMS

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Records Management System

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Which divisions do not use RMS

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E (PRIME-BC) and H (Versadex)

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Master Filing

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All PROS entities are Master Filed (saved/stored) at the RCMP domain. Entities are created once and linked thereafter to the occ

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What is RBAC

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Role Based Access Control

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RBAC

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User can have more than one role (RBAC) and it is never assigned based on rank

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Name the PROS control pad

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ACW, Application Control Window, Launching pad

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What the X button on the ACW does

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Close all active PROS windows except the ACW

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Wildcard search

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Cannot be used as placeholder and cannot have more than one *

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Orange highlighted field means?

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System cannot understand the search criteria entered

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Phonetic checkmark in search

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When unsure of spelling use phonetic to search for anything that spell and sound similar

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what to use for multiword person name and address (fast find)

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Underscore_ used between multiword surname. Also applies for fast search of address (street name)

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Multi-word name: unit (fast find)

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PROS reverts unit name to person name without underscore. Make sure to use underscore between multi-name

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Ordering

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Double click on column name to order values in alphabetically, ascending/descending, group together, etc.

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15
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OCC tab on person window shows

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Occurrence that person has with the police

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16
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Direction field for address

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Only use when its part of the legal address

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17
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Help available within PROS

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  1. Online help (F1 or help-contents) 2. Tip mode (question mark or help-tip mode) 3. Status bar
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How many type of helps available and what are they

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6 types 1. online help 2. tip mode 3. status bar 4. quick reference card (QRC) 5. central help desk 6. PROS info web/Agora SOP

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19
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Clipboard icon

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Generate initial task. Can only be used once and will disappear thereafter

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20
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Status for initial non-reportable task

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Sup check

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21
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Status for initial reportable task

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New

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22
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Green star in occ window

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To generate occ #. Issue across the nation and not unique to any div

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Stats classification tab

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Only filled when an offence has been committed and drug/alcohol is not accounted for any line on the UCR

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24
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What must be included in the current officers tab on occ window

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Lead investigator and primary unit

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Whats shown in the events tab on occ window
All edits done on the occ. Comp generated.
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What does new and fill do
Keep your search criteria when creating new entity
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Verifying search results
All occ that an entity has been involved in can be found under the occ tab of the entity window
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Person window overview: what to do if there is one name (one word) on legal doc
If theres one name on legal doc, put it in both surname and given name fields
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When name is unknown
Leave it blank
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BOLO
Be on the Lookout
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What does BOLO symbol mean
Notify the members to know there is, or has been, a BOLO on an individual or vehicle
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What cant BOLO apply to
Address (as it is not moving)
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Where to add BOLO flag
Caution/flags tab of an entity window
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Where to add BOLO Occurence
Occurence window - tasks/flags
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Where to view BOLO occurrence summary
Launch pad - file - reports - occurrence summary XSLT
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What shown on the BOLO occurrence summary
time range, div/detachment/zone/etc, flag type, active or not
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Occ stats
Gang, computer, hate crime (stats canada)
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How to categorize spider monkey under property tab
Involved animal property
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What to do when adding consumable property to PROS
Never link. Use new and fill to add as a new entity
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Where to link vehicles, aircraft, watercraft and license plate
Under involvement tab
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What are linked under involvement tab
vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, and license plates
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Mandatory fields in property entity
type, quantity and value
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What is the most important of the 3 mandatory property fields and why
value bc it prefills to the UCR incident
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what not permit in PROS
task sharing
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where to find tasks assigned for you
tasks/messages on launch pad and they are ascended ordering
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what does ! task icon mean
high priority and/or need immediate attention of sup
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where does sup go to review the task
unit member task
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what is optional on the task window and why
title bar and it is disclosable
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what happen when you press "start" in assignee task action
change status from new to open for reportable report and from open to sup check for non reportable report
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who can modify the report
both sup or author and have to be under the same domain
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what shown under result tab on task window
show all reports generated while working in this specific task or all reports that have been linked to this task
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what does all reports on PROS must be link to
a task so that ppl cant modify. can link multiple reports to the same task given that you are the author - that way your sup only need to approve one task
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what report the lead investigator to an occ write
general report
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what report contributors to an occ write
supplementary report
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how to search for bus/org
use detailed search to narrow down the search results by using the bus/org addr tab to enter a municipality name or a specific street
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task button for stores mgt tab what does it mean when the buttons greyed out
tag and add. it means you do not have permission to complete the functions (need more advanced RBAC)
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how to create a person based report
created under occ events/reports tab of the person window
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how to task another unit or domain
investigator A - unit task queue for A - unit task queue for B - investigator B (for ongoing investigation) (do not task member specifically, assign to the unit instead)
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who need to complete UCR incident window
must be completed by the lead investigator when completing the initial data entry in PROS occ
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UCR
uniform crime reporting
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how does UCR violations get sorted
by PROS automatically and in descending order
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how UCR errors are displayed
on status bar. fields with error code will be highlighted when clicking on error codes and will be cleared automatically once fixed. sometimes will get both yellow and blue. fix the yellow and the blue will be cleared automatically.
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UCR manual fill weapon field
fill out the most serious weapon in the criminal offence occ. need to be documented whether the weapon has been used or not. this can be different from victim report where the weapon that cause injuries is reported
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when to update a ucr incident
1. change to person classification (charged, suspect chargeable, victim-crime against person) 2. charges entered/updated 3. clearance status changes 4. change in property status (classification of stolen added) 5. change to vehicle recovery status
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what are the most important fields on the charges for UCR scoring purpose
charge itself and charge date
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What need to be done before starting a court case file
Link and classify all entities, complete all reports and charges (LCRC)
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Where to add court case file
From occ window
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Where to record scheduled court dates and appearance
Court case window - schedule tab
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Why every occ has at least one task
Allows occ to go through life cycle
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Whats the first task called
Initial task
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Default due date for initial task
5d
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What are street check
Not a call for service and do not take place of an occ
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Boolean search (no)
Eliminating search criteria you don’t want
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Where to find saved search criteria
Task/message (ACW) - saved search tab