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The civilian side

Characters, vehicles, firearms and emergency calls live in the civilian view, and everything units can look up starts here.

Every record a unit can look up was created here. A community's records start empty and fill as players create characters.

Every account has civilian access, including accounts that joined with a patrol or dispatcher code.

The four tabs

MY CHARACTERS creates and edits identities. See civilian characters.

MY VEHICLES and MY FIREARMS hold registrations against a character. See vehicles and firearms.

EMERGENCY CALL submits a call into the community's CAD queue. See emergency calls.

The header in this view shows PORTAL and CIVILIAN. A submitted emergency call returns a case number at the time it is sent.

The limits

Five characters per account per community. Five vehicles and five firearms per character. Reaching a limit returns a message naming it.

These are per community. The same account can hold a separate set in each.

What units see

A character becomes a person record on creation, searchable by name, date of birth or licence number. A registered vehicle is searchable by plate. A registered firearm is searchable by serial or make.

Officers can add flags and notes to those records. Neither is visible to the player the record belongs to.

Registration status on a vehicle and status on a firearm are set by the owner, and both appear on the return an officer receives. See flags and person notes.

Deleting

Deleting a character also removes records associated with that character. Review the confirmation carefully. See creating and editing characters.

Related pages

  • Creating and editing charactersBuild a character, receive an automatically issued driver licence, set which one is primary, and set the licence status officers see.
  • Registering vehicles and firearmsRegister a plate against a character, set registration status including stolen, and register firearms that receive an issued serial number.
  • Reporting an emergencyCivilians submit calls into the CAD queue with a caller, a type, a location and a description, subject to a wait between calls.
  • Records and lookupsWhere person, vehicle and firearm records come from, how a query becomes a return you can share, and how flags, BOLOs and warrants relate.
  • Running a queryThree searches sit on the Query page. Partial names and plates match, a single result opens straight away and multiple results give you a list.
  • The Portal and choosing a viewThe Portal is where you choose Patrol CAD, Dispatch, Civilian or Community Panel and switch between communities.

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