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Metro would be
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at our office. If you would like to put your department's patch on display please send it
to Metro at:
Metro Technology Services, Inc.
435 Devon Park Drive
Bldg 500, Suite 510
Wayne, PA 19087
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Among departments that have recently installed Visual Alert:
East Norriton
Township PD Hanover
Township PD North Middleton Township PD Penn State -
Hazleton Campus PD Rochester
Township PD
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metalert@metroalert.com
Toll free:
800-658-5716
Local:
610-296-7450
435 Devon Park Drive, Bldg 500, Suite 510,
Wayne PA 19087
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Metro Will Match Your Donations
in Support of Active Duty Military
Drive continues through November 30 The Metro Supports the Military Challenge has been extended through Military Family Appreciation Month, which ends on November 30. With this matching gift program, we hope to encourage you, our customers, to contribute to either the Wounded Warrior Project or the National Military Family Association. Metro will double any personal contribution of up to $100. Please review program details and rules at www.metroalert.com/military. "I want to express our sincere appreciation to all of the customers who have donated to date," said Metro Technology Services founder and president Tony Iannacone. "Please help us encourage those who have not yet donated to step up as the holiday season approaches and help out our active duty military." |
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A Retired Police Chief and Former Client, McKibben Joins Metro Team
To provide greater support to new and existing clients, Metro has added two professionals to its team. One is Retired Chief Russell McKibben and the other is Robert Falcinelli, an experienced sales and customer relations executive.
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Russ McKibben, senior representative, was a Metro client during the 16 years that he led the Dormont Borough Police Dept. in Allegheny County, Pa. He served the Dormont PD for 28 years, starting as a patrol officer and rising to become leader of 42 sworn and civilian employees. As a past president of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association, McKibben led the development of online training systems for police officers.
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Bob Falcinelli brings 15 years of sales and customer relations experience to the Metro team, including work as an independent medical sales consultant and with DuPont's Medical Products Division.
"The addition of these two individuals helps us to better support our existing client base, as well as to expand our footprint throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey," said Tony Iannacone, founder and president of Metro Technology Services. "Chief McKibben was a long-time customer of Metro and thoroughly understands our software solutions and how they can improve the operations of police departments. With his background and Bob's sales and customer relations knowledge, we are better positioned to serve our customers while we continue growing."
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Metro Salutes Those Who Lead
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Metro Technology Services honors Superintendent Michael McGrath of the Lower Merion Police Dept. with an interview in the fall issue of the Bulletin, the quarterly magazine of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association. A 33-year police
veteran, Supt. McGrath has interesting things to say about the many changes he has seen and the challenges he faces. Enjoy this month's McGrath interview and look for Metro to recognize other police leaders with interviews in future editions of the PCPA Bulletin.
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Visual Alert Version 2
Update 2.13.0 available now
Version 2.13.0 is available for download. To download the update and the instructions for performing the update, click here. Below are highlights of the modifications made in the release:
Below are highlights of the modifications made in this Release. For a complete list of enhancements, improvements and modifications in this Release please visit the HELP Menu>About Visual ALERT Enterprise>What's New in this Release? link in your Visual ALERT 2® software.
Persons
New Enhancement - SuperPerson Caution Text Form:
The Caution text is used to alert officers/civilians of any necessary precautions needed when having a person pulled over or in custody. If there is an alert on a person, the alert will display on screen when you're adding the person to a report.
Incident
The Incident Phone Number Search capability has been improved to include Juvenile Phone Numbers and partial Phone Numbers.
Review Names/SuperPerson Form
The Phone Number Search capability has been improved to include Cell Phone Number, Work Phone Number, Other Phone Number, Additional Address Home Phone Number and Work Phone Number.
Vehicles Form
The Vehicle Assignment form has been improved for easier Driver/Vehicle relationship assignment. The system allows you to select a Person and then drag that person to a vehicle without previously selecting the vehicle and creates the relationship.
Criminal Complaint
The Probable Cause Section has been improved to include Summary Supplemental as an Import option. The Defendant/Vehicle Relationship drop down has been included on the Criminal Complaint. Using this option will generate the Vehicle Assignment Relationship for the Person/Vehicle.
User Setup
The User Setup form has been improved to archive the Personnel file attached to the User Account. Now the user will be prompted with a Warning message about deleting the User Account and recommends marking the User Account as Inactive to save the Personnel information.
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 Visual Alert Version 1Update 1.16.739 available now
Version 1.16.739 is available for download. To download the update and the instructions for performing the update, click here. |
Police Movie Pick
Freelancers With Robert De Niro, 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker and Dana Delany
 If you're going to make a movie about police intrigue, revenge and jaded cops, you couldn't do better than to line up Robert De Niro as a central figure. And that is what the producers of Freelancers have done, along with the rapper 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker and Dana Delany. In this new effort, 50 Cent (a.k.a. Curtis Jackson) actually does double duty, co-producing as well as starring as Malo, the son of a slain NYPD police officer who joins the force to carry on his father's tradition. As soon as Malo is out of the Police Academy, however, he's taken under the wing of his father's former partner, Captain Joe Sarcone (De Niro), and sucked into a rogue police operation. As he's tested for loyalty and trust by Sarcone's crew, Malo makes disturbing discoveries about his father's death and sets a determined course for revenge. With violence, sex, nudity, language and drug use, Freelancers got an R rating from the MPAA, which made its quick release on DVD last month almost inevitable (after limited theater showings). But any time you get De Niro onscreen in an intriguing police story, there will be moments to remember, even if he occasionally seems a bit too comfortable in these familiar surroundings.
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Police Book Pick
All I Did Was Shoot My Man By Walter Mosley
 When it comes to crime novels, Walter Mosley is one of America's most popular writers. His books have won a boatload of awards, and from Easy Rawlins to Fearless Jones to Socrates Fortlow, his heroes are the kind fans love and never forget. The latest to get the spotlight is Leonid McGill, a not-quite-up-and-up New York private detective whose cases have spawned a series that has gotten better and better as it has gone along. The latest installment, All I Did Was Shoot My Man, has caused a buzz among critics who have praised it as everything from "surprising" to "unconventional" to "one of the most intriguing crime fiction novels of the year." In this lively yarn, McGill is trying to help Zella Grisham, who did eight years for a Wall Street robbery she did not commit. McGill's interest is personal as well as professional, since he had been hired to set her up for the fall back in the beginning. Now that she's out, McGill thinks he can help her get back on her feet - until hit men come after Zella looking for the $58 million in heist money they think she has hidden. As in all Mosley books, the pace is fast and frantic, and in McGill, readers get a hero more interesting - and complicated - than most. He's one of the funnier ones, too. "Big men throw around their weight from an early age," McGill observes. "At some point they assume this is a God-given right. Every now and then it's good for a short guy like me to disrupt that."
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Police Hero Pick
When they go above and beyond ...
 Whenever a high-speed chase occurs, police officers have to be constantly on the lookout for the unexpected. But two officers pursuing a shoplifting suspect in Avon, Ohio, never could have anticipated how quickly the pursuit would change into a high-risk rescue after the getaway car ran a light, crashed into another vehicle and started smoking. As Officers George Ruple and Charles LaVelle moved to take suspect Jose Rodriguez into custody, Ruple quickly discovered he had something more important to do. With his gun still drawn, he saw that a small baby boy was inside the car - Rodriguez's own son, whom he had taken along when he decided to shoplift at a local department store. With the car in danger of exploding, Ruple pulled the baby out and hurried him to safety while LaVelle took the driver into custody. The baby was transported to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries, and his father was charged with a variety of offenses, including possession of stolen merchandise, driving under the influence and child endangerment. As chance would have it, the dramatic pursuit, arrest and rescue were recorded on a dash cam video camera in a police car and can be viewed here. (Source: PoliceOne.com & wkyc.com)
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Police Perp Pick
When they make our job easy ...
 No matter where you live, a tractor isn't the swiftest choice for a crime vehicle. So when Roger Pion decided to go all Monster Truck on the Orleans County sheriff's fleet in Newport, Vermont, he really didn't have much of a chance for getting away. Pion was upset that Newport police had arrested him on charges of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest back in July. So early this month, he borrowed his parents' oversized tractor and drove to the sheriff's headquarters to express his displeasure. Seeing seven police vehicles ou tside the headquarters, he had a burst of inspiration and laid into the throttle, bucking the tractor up and over the parked cars. He calmly hit the road for his getaway, but in a slow-moving tractor he was arrested just two miles away. Pion was jailed and charged with leaving the scene of an accident, grossly negligent operation of a vehicle, aggravated assault and seven counts of felony unlawful mischief. Like his vehicle, his plan wasn't the swiftest - but it caused a lot of damage. The seven vehicles represent "more than half our fleet," Chief Deputy Sheriff Phil Brooks said. "We only have 11 cars."
(Source: UPI and clumsycrooks.com)
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Police Photo Pick
When it is worth 1,000 words ...
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