Permissions

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.

The department Create Rank window with name, colour, linked Discord role and the list of rank permissions — Rank permissions

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

CAD Admin

Permission	What it does
CAD Admin	Opens the admin panel. Also lets you kick units from a panel, delete radio clips, and skip the clock-in requirement.

Police

Permission	What it does
Police Panel	Open Police panels.
Police Panel Create	Create police records, reports, BOLOs and warrant requests.
Police Panel Edit	Edit police records, reports, BOLOs and warrants. Close BOLOs.
Police Panel Delete	Delete police records, reports, BOLOs and warrants.
Police Panel Supervisor	Supervisor powers on Police panels. See Supervisor Permissions.
Police Panel Close Warrant	Close active warrants.
Police Panel Suspend Licence	Suspend licences. See Suspending a Licence.

Fire, EMS and DOT

Each of these has the same five permissions, for example Fire Panel, Fire Panel Create, Fire Panel Edit, Fire Panel Delete and Fire Panel Supervisor.

Permission	What it does
Panel	Open panels of that type.
Create	Create that type’s records and reports (fire, medical or DOT).
Edit	Edit them.
Delete	Delete them.
Supervisor	Supervisor powers on panels of that type.

Civilian

Permission	What it does
Civilian Panel	Open the Civilian panel when your server restricts it.
Civilian Panel Create	Create characters, and licences, vehicles and DMV records for your own characters.
Civilian Panel Edit	Edit licences, vehicles and DMV records on your own characters.
Civilian Panel Delete	Delete licences, vehicles and DMV records on your own characters.
Civilian Panel Supervisor	Fill in supervisor-only fields on civilian records.

Only the person who created a character can edit or delete it. Renewing your own licence or registration needs no extra permission.

Dispatch

Permission	What it does
Dispatch Panel	Open the Dispatch panel. Create, assign, close and reopen calls, set any unit’s status, edit unit identifiers, send tones and signals, and create BOLOs.

DMV

Permission	What it does
DMV Panel	Open the DMV panel and manage licences, vehicles and DMV records for any civilian, including DMV-only templates.

Law

Permission	What it does
Law Panel	Open the Law panel and run court cases, sentencing and bond hearings.
Law Panel Create	Create law records, reports and warrants. Warrants filed here are active straight away.
Law Panel Edit	Edit law records, reports and warrants.
Law Panel Delete	Delete law records and reports, and deny pending warrants.
Law Panel Supervisor	Fill in supervisor-only fields (needed to approve a warrant), set a warrant’s status, and see who wrote a record.

Radio

Permission	What it does
Radio Kick User	Kick users from radio channels.
Radio Drag User	Move users between radio channels.
Radio Mute User, Radio Deafen User	Not used yet. Reserved for future radio moderation.

See Radio.

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.

See Units and Records.

Records and Warrants

Permissions by record type

Record type	Create	Edit	Delete	Supervisor fields
Police record, report, BOLO	Police Create or Dispatch Panel	Police Edit	Police Delete	Police Supervisor
Warrant	Police Create or Law Create	Police Edit or Law Edit	Police Delete or Law Delete	Law Supervisor
Fire record, report	Fire Create	Fire Edit	Fire Delete	Fire Supervisor
Medical record, report	EMS Create	EMS Edit	EMS Delete	EMS Supervisor
DOT record, report	DOT Create	DOT Edit	DOT Delete	DOT Supervisor
Law record, report	Law Create	Law Edit	Law Delete	Law Supervisor
Civilian character	Civilian Create	Creator only	Creator only	Civilian Supervisor
Licence, vehicle, DMV record	Civilian Create or DMV Panel	Civilian Edit or DMV Panel	Civilian Delete or DMV Panel	Civilian Supervisor or DMV Panel

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, unless restricted. Then Civilian Panel.	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, Require Bodycam, or turn off Self Dispatching. See Config and Joining the CAD.

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What are CAD Permissions?

Where Permissions Come From

Permission Reference

Supervisor Permissions

Records and Warrants

Panel Access

Agency restrictions

Other join requirements

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​What are CAD Permissions?

​Where Permissions Come From

​Permission Reference

​Supervisor Permissions

​Records and Warrants

​Panel Access

​Agency restrictions

​Other join requirements

Need help?

What are CAD Permissions?

Where Permissions Come From

Permission Reference

Supervisor Permissions

Records and Warrants

Panel Access

Agency restrictions

Other join requirements