MFO Covert Policing: product description

Mobbu’s Mobile Field Operations (MFO) Covert Policing is a real-time briefing pack and text/image messaging platform for mobile phones and Command and Control centres. It has offline, permanent data archiving and remote device management capabilities. It runs on BlackBerry (CESG-approved for Restricted data) and is discreet in use.

MFO Covert Policing product description

For field users:

• Runs on all BlackBerry devices that are assured by CESG (and we aim to run on all current BlackBerry devices).
• Remote management including delete data/kill device
  Briefing pack
• Live updates to/from field, to whole team or to individual
• Take photos and send back to Command and Control
• Message filtering by briefing pack, newest/all messages
• Security: 5-digit PIN for login, session management, AES256 encryption (or on a consultancy basis can integrated with with either BlackBerry Smartcard readers and/or bespoke access security)
• Continues to work offline, queuing updates for automatic sending when connection returns
• Planned future functionality:
  • map views, eg team location, crime activity heatmaps
  • Bookmark/999 button

For Command and Control users:

• Briefing pack content creation via a template interface or the standard message creation interface.
• Live message creation and updates of text, images, and other data to/from field, to whole team or to individual, including re-broadcasting updates
• Message filtering by briefing pack, importance, newest/all messages
• Operation management including archived operations
• User and team management
• Security: username and password for login, session management
• Metadata: sender, time updated, current location, update sent/queued…
• Planned future functionality:
  • map views, eg team location, crime activity heatmaps
  • reporting views
  • force tracking
  • APIs for criminal intelligence and 3rd party systems
  • content and access management by security level

Other:

• Technology and system integration, custom integration to other applications, data sources and back-end systems are available on a consultancy basis
• Upgrade roadmap: new product versions every 6 months, provided free under the Product Licence.
• Pricing: A Product Licence charged on 6-month, 12-month or 36-month basis.
• Free support and maintenance (see separate document) if running the most recent version and a standard deployment.
• BlackBerry devices and data plans, BES server and any custom integration work costed separately.

Equipment requirements and installation

MFO Covert Policing runs on a required set of hardware and software on both mobile and centrally. Please see our Equipment requirements document enclosed or at www.mobbu.com/mfo for details.

The required equipment and installation costs are not included in the quotation above unless explicitly stated.

About Mobbu and MFO

Mobbu provides mobile apps and integration services and products to the public safety and security sector. Mobbu is based in the UK and a software provider to Airwave and a BlackBerry Alliance partner.

Contact Alex Laurie at alexl@mobbu.com or +44(0)7976436630 to discuss this service, or for more information see www.mobbu.com/mfo.

(5 November 2009. The latest version of this document is available at www.mobbu.com/mfo)

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