Public Safety Blog

“Innovate, Automate, Succeed” has been Cardinal Tracking’s Motto for several years now.  Our goal is staying abreast of the latest Innovations, while Automating processes for ease of use.  These commitments allow Cardinal and our Agencies to succeed in our shared missions.

MobileLink already increases officer productivity and safety by providing real-time local and national vehicle/person data, empowering the officer with critical information.  Until now obtaining this information required the officer to read information on the laptop and lose visual focus on the violator and or surroundings.

Officer Safety by Automation

Our goal of Innovation and Automation has led us to incorporate a “Text to Speech Translator” to MobileLink.  This new feature allows officers to keep focus on the person/surroundings during traffic stops, or calls for service by “listening” to LETS person and vehicle returns instead of reading the laptop screen.  The end result?……Officer Safety.     

Click Here to Listen to a Sample

Let the Speech Begin

This feature is ready for release to our Agencies currently using MobileLink. Better yet, there is no additional cost for implementation as long as your hardware supports these audio files.  Please make an appointment by calling 1-888-634-7181 or email support@cardinaltracking.com and our support team will schedule the FREE upgrade. 

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As a member of the Sales Department at Cardinal Tracking Inc., I have the pleasure of working many Tradeshows around the country.  Yes it can be rough on the feet but it does give you opportunities to meet new agencies and speak to existing clients.  At a recent show in San Diego I had one of our existing clients stop by our booth.  The Chief was looking for a mechanism to assist the department with filling out the paperwork required by the DA.  Basically the officers were being overwhelmed with paperwork and the Chief was looking to see if Cardinal had a solution that reduced that burden.  I demonstrated to the Chief a feature called Template Editor which is basically a forms builder using Microsoft Word.  This feature allows an agency to create Prosecution Reports, Case Coversheets or basically any form to pull data stored in the Badge RMS and auto fill the document.   

How it works:

Fields inside the Badge RMS have “Bookmark Names”.  These Bookmarks are added to your Microsoft Word document.  While on a record in the Badge RMS the officer will launch Template Editor to start the process.  The feature will create your document and will automatically take data from the Badge RMS to help you fill out the paperwork.  That saves everybody time and helps keep the staff out on patrol.     

This feature will help reduce the double entry of data when creating needed forms and best of all its free to our clients.  This feature will not cost your agency a dime to implement so why not get started?  Call the Cardinal Support line today to learn more about the Template Editor feature and how it can benefit your department.    

Troy Swift

“The new Template Editor feature has streamlined our case management process, reduced administrative errors and allowed for enhanced time management.”    

Chief Tony Cain

Hillsboro Police Department

You can find our more about using Templates and more at the Public Safety Users Conference

in May!