General Requirements:
There are four (4) minimum requirements before a report can be submitted for approval:
| • | Report/Occurrence Dates and Times |
| • | Report Location |
| • | Reporting Officer |
| • | Narrative |
Additional validation requirements may exist such as Media Crime Summary, Incident Types, Reporting Area, and Completion of Custom Form started within the Incident.
Additional validation requirements will be driven by any Offenses added to the report and possibly Custom Fields created by the agency.
Information entered on the Incident saves automatically as it is selected for the report. The Narrative auto saves every 60 seconds as the user is creating it.
Online RMS 11.8.0 and above expands features for states that need to satisfy unique NIBRS requirements. Such as allowing Rules and Validations on the Incident Offenders and Victim tabs in addition to the Incident Header and Incident Offense tabs, a more comprehensive selection of custom fields, and the ability to configure validation rules across tabs.
For example, suppose your state has particular IBR reporting guidelines requiring you to supply specific Incident Offender data when the victim is older than 17. Then, with help from Caliber staff, your agency can add a validation rule to a custom field on the Incident Offender tab requiring the user to supply that information when the victim is older than 17.
Incident Rules:
| • | The Initial Report is designated as “Supp# 0” and Supplements are then added in sequential order (e.g., Supp. # 1, 2, 3, etc.). |
| • | A user can submit another report owner's Incident. |
| • | Incidents can be edited when in Initial or Disapproved status, otherwise will result in a Supplement. |
| • | Incidents that have been Approved can only be Supplemented. |
Field Arrests, Field Contacts, Citations, and Warrants can be associated to an Incident Report within the Summary tab of the report.
Associated CAD information can be found within the Header and Summary tabs in the Calls For Service section.