Filemaker Inc, the makers of the Filemaker software that we use to write PolicePro, announced the new version 8.5 this morning (Monday, July 10). Lo and behold, one of the prime examples they use to show the power of their outstanding new Web Viewer capability is PolicePro. The Web Viewer allows us to embed a Google or Mapquest map of an incident location directly into the Dispatch Report in 8.5, something extremely helpful to cops responding to a call with PolicePro in their patrol cars.

It's great to be recognized by Filemaker, with whom we've had a long relationship... in the late 90's they ran an ad campaign featuring the early PolicePro with a tag line "This collar belongs to Filemaker Pro". I was on a plane reading Fortune Magazine and turned the page to the ad without knowing it was running there, and how good did THAT feel?

The reference to PolicePro and the screenshots are here.

And it's nice to now be able to announce this great feature, which has had to be a secret until FMI made the new version release.