PROS Flashcards
What is PROS
Police Reporting & Occurrence System
What is RMS
Records Management System
Which divisions do not use RMS
E (PRIME-BC) and H (Versadex)
Master Filing
All PROS entities are Master Filed (saved/stored) at the RCMP domain. Entities are created once and linked thereafter to the occ
What is RBAC
Role Based Access Control
RBAC
User can have more than one role (RBAC) and it is never assigned based on rank
Name the PROS control pad
ACW, Application Control Window, Launching pad
What the X button on the ACW does
Close all active PROS windows except the ACW
Wildcard search
Cannot be used as placeholder and cannot have more than one *
Orange highlighted field means?
System cannot understand the search criteria entered
Phonetic checkmark in search
When unsure of spelling use phonetic to search for anything that spell and sound similar
what to use for multiword person name and address (fast find)
Underscore_ used between multiword surname. Also applies for fast search of address (street name)
Multi-word name: unit (fast find)
PROS reverts unit name to person name without underscore. Make sure to use underscore between multi-name
Ordering
Double click on column name to order values in alphabetically, ascending/descending, group together, etc.
OCC tab on person window shows
Occurrence that person has with the police
Direction field for address
Only use when its part of the legal address
Help available within PROS
- Online help (F1 or help-contents) 2. Tip mode (question mark or help-tip mode) 3. Status bar
How many type of helps available and what are they
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
Clipboard icon
Generate initial task. Can only be used once and will disappear thereafter
Status for initial non-reportable task
Sup check
Status for initial reportable task
New
Green star in occ window
To generate occ #. Issue across the nation and not unique to any div
Stats classification tab
Only filled when an offence has been committed and drug/alcohol is not accounted for any line on the UCR
What must be included in the current officers tab on occ window
Lead investigator and primary unit
Whats shown in the events tab on occ window
All edits done on the occ. Comp generated.
What does new and fill do
Keep your search criteria when creating new entity
Verifying search results
All occ that an entity has been involved in can be found under the occ tab of the entity window
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
When name is unknown
Leave it blank