Influence

Form Design

Have an alcohol citation completed then click the Replicate button to open an Influence form. Some fields from the citation will auto populate the Influence form. There’s an Interrogation Report available for printing at any time. The form can be deleted at any time.

The Influence form is printed and isn’t transmitted outside agencies. The form may be transmitted to get into Records Management Systems (RMS) if configured.

The Alcohol form contains 7 groups:

Document
Violator
Opinions
Pre-Interrogation
Questions
Law Enforcement Agency
Attachment

Document Group

Each Influence form contains one Document group. The fields within the group are shown in the figure below. The Date Reported field is the date the influence form was filled out.

Violator Group

Each Influence form contains one Violator group. The fields within the group are shown in the figure below. The Date and time fields along with the Citation number field will have auto populated if the replicate feature was used.

Opinions Group

Each Influence form contains one Opinions group. The fields within the group are shown in the figure below.

Pre-Interrogation Group

Each Influence form contains one Pre-Interrogation group. The fields within the group are shown in the figure below.

Questions Group

Each Influence form contains one Questions group. The fields within the group are shown in the figure below.

The question section consists of fields, which are text or drop-down lists. Each drop down list has Yes, No or See Comments. If See Comments is selected, the officer will add the violator response to the question in the Comments section at the bottom of the Influence form. If No is selected, all fields related to that field will gray out. To enable a grayed-out field, select Yes instead of No.

The following fields can use a dropdown list or manual enter text using the OTHER option.

Law Enforcement Agency Group

Each Influence form contains one Law Enforcement Agency group. The fields within the group are shown in the figure below. The Agency Space field has a 200-character maximum.

Attachment Group

Attached File – In the databar click on

to choose the file to attach. Click

to attach a file link. The file will be saved in a common TraCS attachment directory. Click

to import an image from the bar code scanner. (needs IT to set up.) Click

to import from a scanner attached to the computer.

If you attached the wrong file, simply click on the Attached File field and select the correct file.

Confidential File Link – if the file needs to be confidential choose yes. This also changes the options of the attached file to only file link.

File Name – Enter the file name, this field is automatically generated if blank from eh attached file name.

Agency Space – Enter any miscellaneous comments to include.