1. Report Incident Interface (CAD)
Incidents reported through 911 calls, involving the Sheriff’s office and local law enforcement agencies, are logged in the Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD) system and are sent to Records Management System (SHIELD). CAD interface in Shield allows Case Incidents sent from CAD to be entered into Shield automatically. The Case Incidents information is sent to Shield when the calls are ‘closed’ in CAD, this is the trigger for sending the information and is controlled by the CAD system. The transferred information includes Case Incident, Comments, Party Involvement, Property Involved, Activity Offense and Assisting Agency.
2. Pawn Shop Interface
The purpose of this interface is to check whether any property reported stolen to law enforcement agencies is part of the Statewide APS Pawn Shop inventory. SHIELD contains a hot link to this system.
3. Ad hoc Extracts Interface
The Ad Hoc Report Writer in Shield is used to extract information from the database. Ad Hoc generates and outputs the requested data to flat files, which can be forwarded to a third party application. The Ad Hoc Report Writer allows the user to eliminate all formatting to truly generate a flat file.
4. Probation Hotlink
By selecting the Probation website entry from the “Quick Launch” menu, Shield automatically starts the default browser and navigates to the website selected (for Probation: https://www.probation.state.mn.us).
5. Asset Forfeiture Interface
The Asset Forfeiture interface is a two-way interface with the DAMION-Prosecutor system. The law enforcement agencies (DAMION-Shield) initiate the asset forfeiture process and send the request to the County Attorney (CA). Also, the law enforcement agencies receive asset forfeiture information from the CA for update of the proceedings.
6. Agency Filing Request Interface
The purpose of this interface is to refer incident reports to the County Attorney (CA) by law enforcement agencies. This interface exports the basic incident and arrest information recorded by arresting agencies in Shield and requested charges to be filed by the County Attorney (DAMION-Prosecutor) against a given incident reports or a specific suspect. The electronically recorded evidentiary information can also selectively be sent to the CountyAttorney. All documents generated in SHIELD and all media attached to the SHIELD Media Manager are transmitted to the CountyAttorney's Discovery Module.
7. Discovery
Discovery is a client/server application designed as a module of the DAMION family of products. The Discovery module is designed to work in conjunction with Media Manager. The user interface follows the current DAMION design standards and security measures. The database model is integrated with DAMION. The purpose of Discovery is to collect, review, annotate and produce a series of electronic files used in any particular case. The collection supports all media files managed by Media Manager.
8. Court Events / Dispositions to SHIELD Interface
This interface allows Law Enforcement to view information about the incidents sent to the Attorney's office. This interface consists of one Shield window, which queries DAMION-Prosecutor directly to retrieve information about a given ICR.
9. State Reporting Interface (CJRS)
The State Reporting interface allows law enforcement agencies to automatically post information to the State’s Criminal Justice System (CJRS).
10. Retrieve Mug Shot Interface
By selecting the Mug Shot website entry from the “Quick Launch” menu, Shield automatically starts the default browser and navigates to the website selected (for Mug Shot: https://www.state.mn.us). Since the users are required to enter a username/password on the Mug Shot website, it is not possible to navigate directly to a person’s information.
11. Electronic Filing from DAMION to MNCIS
This interface performs electronic filing of criminal complaint data with the court system (MNCIS).
12. Court Events and Dispositions from MNCIS
This interface receives events and dispositions from the court system (MNCIS).
13. DAMION Jail Interfaces
The following information provides an overview of all interfaces between DAMION Jail and external application systems:
a. Livescan
Damion Jail provides booking data to the Livescan stations. The Livescan stations transmit booking and fingerprint data to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) NIST Server.
b. Mugshot
DAMION Jail provides inmate's booking information to the Mug Shot system. The Mug Shot system inserts inmate photos to DAMION Jail table and transmits booking & photo data to the Minnesota Repository of Arrest Photos (MRAP).
c. MN-DOC Statewide Supervision System (S3) Interface
DAMION Jail transmits inmate detention data to the Minnesota Department of Corrections Statewide Supervision System. The MN-DOC S3 is a centralized database at the Department of Corrections. It contains offender information regarding their probation, parole, and detention activities. Criminal justice agencies have electronic access to this information via a secure website.
d. VINE Interface
DAMION Jail VINE Interface provides data for all active inmates or inmates that were released within the last 4 days. The data is used by Appriss to provide information to victims about offenders' current status and to notify the victims of events like admissions and pending releases. DAMION Jail provides data that contains offenders' basic demographics, address, booking, arrest, charges, and scheduled release date information.
14. CIBRS
CIBRS is a system that collects data, submitted by local law enforcement agencies from the agency’s records management systems (RMS). CIBRS accepts data from agencies across the state and subsequently makes the data available to law enforcement agencies statewide. NEMESIS has an Adaptor to CIBRS for such submissions.
15. NEIS
Name and Event Index Service (NEIS) links names and events to identify individuals and their status in the criminal justice system. NEMESIS agencies uset an Adaptor to send such information from its CIBRS submissions.
16. E- Charging Service
The eCharging Service provides for routing, temporary retention, filing, and printing on demand of all charging documents (including electronic signatures) for all felony, gross misdemeanor and statutory misdemeanor cases. NEMESIS has an adaptor for routing Criminal Complaints electronically to the E-Charging Service.
17. E- Citations
NEMESIS has a separate adaptor that sends citation data and the citation itself through the E-Charging Service to the Courts and back to the Law Enforcement application via the BCA’s eCharging Service technology.
18. Mobile Reporting Interface
Citations are electronically populated and generated from MobileMDC's in its squad cars. This eliminates data entry and facilitates electronic submittal of data, citations and incident data to the Courts.
19. E-911
CAD/TI supports an online interface to the local E911 controller from which the CAD/TI Server can receive the ANI/ALI data stream. The connection with the E911 Controller is via an asynchronous, serial link.
Upon receipt of an E911 call the E911 controller connects the call to a call taker, the E911 controller then sends the calls ALI information to the CAD/TI system, identifying the specific position that has answered the call. CAD/TI matches this position with the CAD/TI workstation identification and then parses the complete ANI/ALI data stream, displaying the primary E911 information at the bottom of the call entry form.
20. Synchronized Time Source
CAD/Ti can accept an external time setting to ensure that all systems are synchronized as it relates to time. The time source utilized is a hardware product called Netclock/2 from Spectracom. This product accepts an external time source, typically that provided by GPS satellites or the WWVB radio signal.
This is then converted into a digital time value that can be sent to the various computers and other equipment in the communication center.
The CAD/Ti server accepts this data at a common location, via a serial connection. It then automatically passes this information to the other servers via the local network. The specific configuration for connection and transfer will be determined during the initial phases of the project. This time source, via the server software, is also used to synchronize the CAD/Ti workstation software as well
21. Alpha Numeric Paging Interface
The alphanumeric paging interface supports two primary capabilities:
a) It allows an authorized operator to set a digital page message to a mobile pager that is defined within the CAD system, identifying the pager by a pager identifier, which may be a name, number or other agency-defined information.
b) A summary of the incident dispatch information can be automatically sent to pagers associated with units assigned to an incident. Only summary information is sent to the digital pager, typically:
· Incident number
· Incident type
· Incident location
· Units assigned
· Map Page or RD
22. TCP/IP Interface to State
CAD/Ti includes an integral message switch that supports the ability to accept, format, send and respond to messages to the State of Minnesota to the national NCIC databases. The interface will be supported utilizing standard TCP/IP protocols via a client provided LAN/WAN link to the State switch.
The user of this interface accesses the State message switch via local message input forms. These forms are used for data entry only; a “reformatting” subsystem accepts data in the formats defined and translates the data fields into the formats used by the State. This reformatting system is initially set up by Tiburon as part of the base system implementation.
Responses from the State are displayed on the entering workstation (if properly identified within the responding message header) via the standard message queuing and display functions within CAD/Ti/MSS. The messages can be viewed, scrolled, resized, printed, redirected, saved and recalled by operator action. They can also be attached to an incident history record in a summary format in the form of a standard incident history status segment.
23. TDD/TTY
The Tiburon CAD/Ti TDD/TTY interface provides interaction between the TDD/TTY source and associated data stream received via either the Zetron system or E-911 controller and the CAD workstation’s Event Entry “TDD/TTY Tab”.
24. Probation Notification Interface