June 2012 

To give back to the men and women who currently serve in America's armed forces, we've pledged to match your contributions to either the Wounded Warrior Project or the National Military Family Association. The Metro Supports the Military Challenge will match qualifying individual donations of $10 to $100 made before Labor Day 2012, up to a total of $10,000. For details and donation information, visit www.metroalert.com/military.

In a related effort called Metro Salutes Those Who Served, we're also saluting police officers who previously served in the armed forces. Honorees will be featured in a series of sponsored articles appearing in law enforcement publications. First in the series is an interview with Vietnam veteran and Springfield, Pa. Police Chief Joe Daly, which is featured in the summer issue of PCPA Bulletin, the magazine of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association. Throughout the year, Metro will similarly honor additional police officers who are also veterans.    

We would like to thank all of you who participated in this year's user conferences. Hopefully, you enjoyed the new format as much as we did. It's always a pleasure putting new voices to faces and reconnecting with those familiar ones. We are all looking forward to next year's conference. If you have any comments or suggestions about the conference, please feel free to send an email to support@metroalert.com, and put "Conferences" in the subject line.

Version 2.12.1 is available for download. To download the update and the instructions for performing the update, click here. (Note: If you are a Chester County Department, please do not download the update without first contacting us.) Below are highlights of the modifications made in the release:    

UCR 

• The UCR Report will now display the correct count of incidents and stolen property values presented, minus the count and stolen property values of unfounded incidents from previously reported incidents.
• Fixed issue where a report happened in a previous month and then was cleared in the current month, and the Offenses Cleared column was not showing the correct count.
• Fixed the issue where all the property on the UCR D1 Report was totaling in the "K - Miscellaneous" line.
• Fixed the issue where the UCR Report was counting the number of persons in the role of "Victim" in any of the role fields in the incident when there were Additional Classifications. According to the hierarchy rule, it should only be checking for the role of "Victim" against the Primary Classification in the incident.
• Fixed the issue involving a homicide with multiple victims and the UCR file was not completing the offender's information after the first victim. 

Alarms 

• The Alarm Letter utility will now print the correct letter format for the appropriate Alarm Activation. 

General Letters 

• Added radio button to allow the user to select Active Alarm Accounts Only (default).

Evidence 

• Searching evidence information by badge number will now return results.
• Evidence Barcode Tags can now print on a Zebra Barcode Label Printer.
• Evidence Inventory has been updated to display all evidence items except those marked as Disposed.
• The barcode scanner will now enter the appropriate evidence transaction information.

Multimedia 

• The Print button will now be enabled when the user selects the "Tag All" button. The Print button will be disabled when the file selected does not have one of the following extensions: GIF, JPG, JPEG, JPE, JFIF, PNG, BMP, DIB, WMF, ART, ICO.
• The multimedia form will close down automatically after you select a different form within the incident.
• Fixed the issue when a user double clicked on the image and tried to print or view the image and received the following error message "the page size was not large enough to format the contents of the object in the report."

Miscellaneous 

• Fixed the issue where the Missing Persons Report was not displaying the correct age for the Missing Persons listed.
• Fixed the issue with Time Display under Incident Management. All options under this menu will now display the time using the 24 hour clock.
• The Arrival and Dispatch Time fields on the Accident Form can now have the time entered by right clicking on the field.
• Fixed the issue with Shift Call Log when you attempt to create a new shift. The Revert New Shift button is no longer disabled.
• The Subpoena List now includes the Role of the individual.
• Fixed the issue when an Arrest Report was deleted. Previously the Visual ALERT Explorer window would automatically collapse, forcing the user to have to select the Expand button.
• Fixed the issue when you search for an Accident report under the Accident Menu and a Citation is attached to the Accident. Previously, it displayed the Citation form instead of the Accident form.
• Fixed issue involving Businesses being deleted from the Business List.

Parking 

• Now, if a Parking Authority has their own ORI, and the Police Department writes tickets that are processed by the Parking Authority, the ticket has the Police Department's ORI number for the ticket, not the Parking Authorities ORI.

Vehicles 

• Fixed issue when a vehicle is added to a report and the SuperVehicle record was not being generated.

Quick Forms 

• The Warning Citation form may now be adjusted by the user so they no longer have to scroll down the form.

Field Reporting 

• Fixed the issue where Grids and Zones in the laptop were reversed after transfer from the Main System.
• Fixed issue where the Officer Activity data was not transferred over into the main system from the laptops.

Person Form/Review Names 

• Fixed the issue in Review Names involving searching by an age range. The results no longer include people outside the searched criteria.
• When the "Baby Age" drop down is used on the Person form it will now save the record as a Juvenile.
• The "Add" button on the Person Form is now functional.
• The images attached to the Portfolio of someone under Review Names will now print out in their correct sequence and duplicates will be prevented.
• Fixed the issue on the Person Form where the "More Juvenile Information" button didn't appear until after you save the Juvenile record. It will now appear automatically when the age is entered and is less than 18.
• Updated the field "Pager #" on the Person Form to "Other Phone #."
• Fixed the issue on the Persons form where the FBI and SID numbers were being overwritten when someone's SuperPerson record was updated.

Search Warrant 

• The Search Warrant Inventory/Receipt page is no longer missing separator lines for the Seized Property section.

New Jersey DUI Form 

• The Vehicle Owner's name is no longer being cut off on the DUI report. Also, the Blood Alcohol Level remains blank if the driver refuses to take the test. Previously, it would print as 0.00.

Police Movie Pick

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law  

Police Book Pick

Fun House by Chris Grabenstein