Daily Activity Report

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2016

The Daily Activity Report (DAR) is a worksheet application which captures the starting and ending times of all activities and incidents handled during a police officer’s tour of duty. Each entry in the worksheet is assigned to a specific type of time assignment (Roll Call, Criminal Investigations, Court, etc.) and total minutes are calculated for each of these tasks. In an eight hour shift, the officer is responsible to account for 480 minutes. All of the entries from the worksheet are summarized into the Time Analysis section of the report. In addition to tracking the times, the operational tasks performed (Arrests, Citation, Recoveries, etc.) are counted. For each report written (Arrest, Traffic Crash, Traffic Enforcement and Field Interview Report) a summary of each report (Subject’s name, date of birth, address/location, etc.) is entered into the DAR. Unrelated to the time and operational statistics, the officer’s (badge number, name, assignment etc.) and vehicle (radio number, toll card, fuel card, etc.) information must be entered. This information usually remains static unless the officer is transferred or equipment is replaced. Certain items such as starting/ending miles and the results of Electronic Control Device (ECD) spark test must be entered per each start of shift. The time and operational statistics collected from the Daily Activity Reports are analyzed in several statistical reports which are filtered by Agency, district, platoon and/or officer. In additional filtering, several reports provide comparison analysts.