What are CAD Permissions?
CAD permissions decide which panels you can open and what you can do there. Most are ticked on department ranks, in the same rank editor as your other department permissions. Everything you hold on a server is combined.
Where Permissions Come From
| Source | What you get |
|---|---|
| Server owner and administrators | Every CAD permission. |
| Department ranks | The CAD permissions ticked on every rank you hold. |
| Department Administrators | Every CAD permission for the department's type, plus all Law and Radio permissions. Not CAD Admin. |
| Join codes | The permissions on the code, until your membership expires. See Joining with a Code. |
| Open civilian access | Civilian Panel, Create, Edit and Delete for everyone (not Supervisor), while your server doesn't restrict the Civilian panel. |
- Panel permissions only appear on ranks of the matching department type. For example, Fire permissions only appear on Fire department ranks.
- CAD Admin, Law and Radio permissions can go on a rank in any department.
- DMV Panel can only be ticked on ranks in an Other type department.
- Join codes can't give CAD Admin, DMV Panel or Radio permissions.
- Changing a department's type removes CAD permissions that don't fit the new type.
Permission Reference
Supervisor Permissions
The Supervisor permission for Police, Fire, EMS or DOT gives you extra control on panels of that type:
- Self-dispatch, even if your server has self-dispatching turned off.
- Create calls and assign other units on your panel.
- Manage other units: set their status, trigger panic and manage groups, timers and tones.
- Create, rename and disband unit groups.
- Use Dispatch Tools: tone board, signal manager, timers and live map.
- Edit other units' identifiers and view their bodycams.
- Fill in supervisor-only fields (dark red background) on records, see who wrote a record and use the Supervisor Centre tab in the Records Centre.
Records and Warrants
- Warrants filed from the Police panel start as pending until someone on the Law panel approves them. Only active warrants show alerts on name and plate runs.
- On the Police panel, the only warrant status change is Close Warrant, which needs Police Panel Close Warrant.
- Fire, EMS and DOT members can't use BOLO templates unless they also have Police Panel Create or Dispatch Panel.
- Outside the DMV panel, you can only change licences, vehicles and DMV records on characters you own.
Panel Access
| Panel | You need | Also required |
|---|---|---|
| Police, Fire, EMS, DOT | That type's Panel permission | A department of that type, and one of the panel's agencies if it's limited |
| Dispatch | Dispatch Panel | A Dispatch department |
| Civilian | Nothing, or Civilian Panel if your server restricts it | At least one department |
| Law | Law Panel | At least one department |
| DMV | DMV Panel | At least one department |
| Admin panel | CAD Admin | None |
Radio-only pages need the same permission as their panel.
Agency Restrictions
Admins can limit a service panel to certain agencies in Customization. An agency counts as yours if it isn't linked to a department, or if you're in the department it's linked to.
When you create a unit, you can only pick agencies that are yours. If an agency is linked to a department where you hold a rank, your unit's rank is filled in from it.
Other Join Requirements
Your server can also turn on Require Clock-In or Require Bodycam, or turn off Self Dispatching. See Config and Joining the CAD.
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