Electronic Offense Incident Reporting

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2017

The Electronic Offense Incident Report (e-OIR) is custom software that is designed to replace the paper OI reports – Incident, Property, Victim, Witness, Vehicle, Illegal Document and Officer Assaulted/Killed – and move the Miami-Dade Police Department toward the goal of becoming a ‘paperless’ environment. More than just a form-filler, the software offers Miami-Dade’s public safety community the ability to submit accurate and timely reports from the mobile computing unit in the police cruiser. Using interfaces to existing law enforcement systems, the officer can pre-populate a report with call data from the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, address information from the county Geographic Information System (GIS), and arrest data from the county arrest system. Once a report is initiated, more data can be imported using the interface to law enforcement databases and personal information can be inserted from a driver license via a magnetic stripe reader. The program validates that the entered information meets Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) standards and has a spelling checker to verify the report narrative. Physical transport of documents is eliminated, therefore, transmission time between officers, supervisors and other units is greatly reduced. Being in electronic format, the possibility of manual tampering is all but eliminated.