Author: The SmartForce® Team

The SmartForce® Team
SmartForce Technologies Inc.

Fire departments, like their law enforcement brothers and sisters, are facing a larger amount of data than ever before. While technology has certainly brought a wide range of benefits into our lives, it’s also complicated things to a dramatic degree. Department functions are growing in scope, making them more difficult to manage accurately and efficiently. Different areas within an organization are starting to exist in silos, which isn’t doing anyone – let alone the communities they serve – any good.

Enter: SmartFire ™. Like the SmartForce ™ Agency Management System (AMS), SmartFire ™ is designed to help fire departments manage their operations better than ever before with intelligence-led decision making, the likes of which many have never seen.

Alerts

As a forward-thinking, mobile-friendly solution, SmartFire ™ and SmartForce™ get mission-critical updates into the hands of the people who need it the most – when they need it the most – and wherever they happen to be.

Shift Briefings

Along the same lines, SmartFire™ can be hugely beneficial in terms of shift briefings, helping to make sure everyone has access to the actionable information they need in the field at all times. This is particular critical in terms of the life-and-death situations that fire fighters face every day.

Document Management

Mission-critical documents aren’t doing anybody any good if they take hours to find. Email is great – to an extent, but wading through gigabytes of messages to find the right document wastes precious time and resources. Thanks to SmartFire™, your fire department doesn’t have to worry about this ever again.

Training and Compliance Management

Continuing education is hugely important in terms of fire department success and now, thanks to SmartFire™, managing both training and compliance in-house has never been easier.

Accountability Features and Reporting

SmartFire™ offers better management and reporting to guarantee not only more procedural justice transparency, but also a more efficient way to offer reporting to command staff, local government officials, the general public and even the media in the communities being served.

At its core, SmartFire ™ (like SmartForce ™) is designed to help fire departments work smarter, not harder, putting them in the best possible position to protect, serve and collaborate with the communities they operate in like never before. To find out more about SmartFire by Adventos™ , please contact Adventos today.

The SmartForce® Team
SmartForce Technologies Inc.

At Adventos, we understand the types of challenges that law enforcement agencies around the country are facing in today’s modern climate. The role of police officers has never been more important, yet at the same time it has perhaps never been under more scrutiny. That’s why we’ve designed the entire SmartForce™ suite of products from the ground up with these factors in mind, putting the tools these hardworking men and women need well within reach – wherever they happen to be and whenever they happen to need it.

SmartForce™ was founded on the principles of transparency, accountability and accessibility – three of the most important pillars when it comes to determining when, where and how use of force is appropriate. We call it “Response to Resistance” and it’s something that both we and our law enforcement agency partners are excited about.

We’ve also released a series of YouTube videos designed to help you get even more out of your deployment. You can learn how to create a Response to Resistance report in SmartForce™, learn more about the capabilities built into the Response to Resistance supervisor section, get general tips about making the most of Response to Resistance and more.

To learn more about the current and expanding features of SmartForce™ Agency Management Solution (AMS) developed in collaboration with our customer and Agency partners, please visit our Website at www.adventos.com.

The SmartForce® Team
SmartForce Technologies Inc.

Even though we have faster computers and more information than ever, you would think that law enforcement agencies would have more speed and success at reducing crime.  Unfortunately, this is not the case in many U.S. cities as crime and threats continue to climb.  Some reasons are:

• Increasing numbers of text, photo, and video data bases that are not integrated with a common search feature
• Poor search engines that can’t search inside pdf documents or text narratives
• Lack a comprehensive system for communicating, tracking, reporting, or assessing crime reduction efforts. Most LE agencies only have systems for calls for service, reporting crimes, and case management
• No system for multi-jurisdictional collaboration and sharing of crime data.

To reduce crime in today’s environment of exponential increases in text, photo, and video data as well as increased population to officer ratios, it requires speed to search and access data, speed in providing direction to patrol on where crimes are happening, and ease of assessing activity and results.  Without speed, crime patterns are not addressed early enough to disrupt or stop the patterns and crime continues to rise.

The Technology Solution

Only invest in technology that has the capability to solve 2 or more of the challenges listed above so you can add more speed into your agency.  No longer can you or your agency get a return on investment of buying another software program that operates in a silo and only solves 1 problem.  We must kill more than one bird with a stone and acquire software you can continue to grow into.

 If you are trying to align and direct patrol with real-time information and intelligence for improved crime reduction, you may want to check out the new features of the SmartForce™ Agency Management System from Adventos.  SmartForce™ provides a force-multiplier system for communicating, tracking, reporting, and assessing crime reduction efforts that can also share crime data with neighboring LE agencies.  Click here to check out a short video of the SmartForce™ crime reduction features or click here to read a PoliceOne article on how the Port St. Lucie Police Department uses SmartForce™ to reduce property crimes by 20+% year over year.