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The stuff nobody writes down
Which hospital door to use at two in the morning. The code for the back gate at the yard. Which tow company actually answers. Every officer accumulates this over years, keeps it in their head or on a card in their vest, and takes it with them when they leave.
What the directory holds
The Job tab is the working set — the addresses and codes you need on shift, saved once and there whether or not you have a signal.
There are two more tabs beside it. Off-Duty holds the same kind of information for the places you work details, and Toolkit is where the reference documents will live — that part is still in development.
Codes stay hidden until you ask for them
A gate code sitting in plain view on a phone screen is a problem waiting to happen. In the app the code is masked, and you hold the reader to show it — long enough to punch it in, and no longer.
North yard, rear gate
NotesSecond gate on the left. Keypad is behind the post.
Handing it over in one message
This is the part worth understanding. A new member arrives at the detachment and knows none of it. They learn it the slow way: by driving to the wrong hospital entrance, by calling a tow company that does not answer, by sitting at a gate waiting for someone to come and open it.
They do not have to. You can send your directory to them in a text message. Years of local knowledge, most of it never written down anywhere official, handed over in a couple of taps.
It works at every level. One gate code, one hospital with its door codes, a whole category, or the lot — anything in the directory goes by text at the touch of a button. And it is not only the directory: the schedulers and employers you have saved can be sent the same way, so a new officer starts with the contacts as well as the addresses.
It changes what an FTO can hand a recruit on day one, and it changes what happens when someone transfers in from another detachment. It also means the knowledge does not walk out of the door when an officer retires.
Why it is not just contacts on your phone
Because your contacts list does not hold a door code, and it does not tell you which entrance the ambulance bay is on. This is built for the specific things officers need mid-shift: an address, a code, a name, and the one line of context that makes it useful.
And because it is organised the way the job is — courts here, jails there, hospitals with their codes attached — rather than as one long alphabetical list.
It stays on your phone
Gate codes and hospital door codes are exactly the kind of information that should not sit on somebody else's server. Nothing here is uploaded. It is on your device, and it moves only when you send it to someone yourself.
Designed by a working police officer
Your rotation, your off-duty work, and the addresses you need — all on your phone.
Scan to install — or hold it up for the officer next to you.
