Administration

Setting up Draft One to be used by your officers involves several steps:

• Configure Draft One settings
• Assign permissions (for using Draft One in Axon Evidence with a 3rd-party RMS)
• Assign privileges (for using Draft One from Axon Records and Standards)

Settings

Draft One has various settings you can configure to ensure it is used responsibly by your organization's users.

Officer acknowledgement

Before copying a draft narrative generated by Draft One from Axon Evidence or before submitting a report containing a draft narrative generated by Draft One in Axon Records or Standards, users must type their name below an Acknowledgement statement.

The Officer acknowledgement section on the Draft One Settings page lets you choose whether to use the default acknowledgement statement or create a custom one.

Obvious errors

To ensure that users carefully read drafts that are generated with Draft One, you can enable the Intentionally insert obvious errors for removal setting. This setting inserts obvious errors throughout a draft that is generated by Draft One. Until these errors are removed, users can't submit the report or copy the draft narrative to their clipboard.

Examples of obvious errors include:

• The international spy network was revealed to be a group of highly trained squirrels.
• The convicted criminal's sentence was to walk the plank in a community pool.
• It was unanimously decided that rock-paper-scissors would determine the suspect's fate.
• The criminal's hideout was inside a painting, accessed via a secret word.

Block incident types

The Block incident types setting lets you prevent users from generating draft narratives with Draft One based on certain incident types and charge level.

Use the checkboxes to disable the use of Draft One in the following scenarios:

• Incident type
  • Domestic Dispute
  • Impaired Driving
  • Property Crime
  • Traffic Incident
  • Drug Related
  • Informational Report
  • Public Disorder
  • Violent Crime
  • Fraud and Financial
  • Missing Person
  • Sexual Offense
  • Warrants
• Charge Level
  • No Charge
  • Infraction
  • Misdemeanor
  • Felony
• If an arrest was made

By default, Draft One is disabled in the following scenarios, although it can be enabled if desired by your organization:

• Charge Level: Felony
• An arrest was made

Minimum change requirement

This setting requires that a certain percentage of a draft that is generated by Draft One must be changed before the user submits the report or copies the draft narrative to their clipboard. This percentage is called the minimum change threshold.

When this setting is enabled, you can choose to either prevent users from submitting reports / copying draft narratives or notify them that they didn't meet the recommended change threshold but still allow them to submit the report / copy the draft.

The available change thresholds include:

• 10% of words
• 20% of words
• 30% of words
• 40% of words

The following principles are used when the system calculates what is and is not a "change":

• If words are not changed but moved around, this DOES count as a change.
• If words are removed, this DOES count as a change.
• If the obvious errors setting is enabled and users remove obvious errors, this does NOT count as a change.
• INSERT statements
  • Removing the original INSERT statement text does NOT count as a change.
  • Adding new text to replace the original INSERT statement DOES count as a change.

User settings

The settings in this section manage how users interact with Draft One.

Allow draft generation from all accessible evidence

By default, a user can only use Draft One on evidence items assigned to them. To let users generate narratives for any evidence files they have permission to access, turn on the Allow draft generation from all accessible evidence setting.

When this feature is enabled, a User or Group menu appears on the Select Evidence screen when generating a draft narrative.

Add details before draft generation

This setting allows an officer to add additional information that will be included in the draft. If you enable this setting, you can also choose whether or not users can generate drafts without evidence.

Formatting

The settings in this section let you manage how various aspects of generated drafts are formatted.

Date format

This setting determines how dates are formatted in generated drafts. Options include:

• Month Day, YYYY (January 31st, 2025): This is the default setting
• YYYY-MM-DD (2025-01-31)
• MM/DD/YYYY (01/31/2025)

Time format

This setting determines how times are formatted in generated drafts. Options include:

• 12-hour (8:00am): This is the default setting
• 24-hour (20:00)

Draft header/footer

These settings let you create text that is automatically inserted at the beginning or end of draft narratives that were generated by Draft One. Although users can delete this content before copying the draft or submitting the report, the audit trail will still indicate whether Draft One was used for a given report and evidence item.

If you enable the Draft footer setting, you can choose between creating a custom footer or using the default Acknowledgement statement as the draft footer.

Generate third-person drafts

By default, drafts are generated using first-person perspective (I did this...). When this setting is enabled, drafts are instead generated using third-person perspective (Officer Smith did this...).

Assign permissions

The following permissions control the Draft One features a user in a given role can use.

Permission section	Permission name	Description
Draft One	Use Draft One	This permission lets users use Draft one to generate draft narratives.
Search & Reporting Access	Generate reports	This permission lets users create Draft One usage reports.
Search & Reporting Access	Generate User Audit Trail Report	This permission lets users create User Audit Trail reports.
Evidence Management	View evidence video and images	This permission controls whether users can view the underlying media for evidence items (view videos, see images, hear audio, etc.). When a new role is created, this permission is Prohibited by default, which means that users in this role can access evidence transcripts and metadata (so they can still use Draft One), but NOT view the underlying media.

To assign a permission to a role:

1. Log in to Axon Evidence and select Admin.
2. In the User Management section of the Admin Console, select Roles & Permissions.
3. Select the pencil icon on the role that needs to be able to use Draft One features.
4. Select the Allowed option beside the necessary privileges.
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and select Save.

For more information, see Roles and Permissions.

Assign privileges

A privilege controls whether a user can use Draft One to generate draft narratives when they are writing reports in Axon Records and Axon Standards. To assign this privilege:

1. Open the Administrator Console in Axon Records or Axon Standards and select Command Hierarchy & Teams.
2. Open whichever Command Hierarchy group or team needs the privilege.
3. Switch to the Privilege View tab.
4. Enter "narrative" in the search bar or scroll down to the Reports section.
5. Expand the Reports - write category.
6. Select the Allow option for the Generate draft narratives using the AI-powered Draft One privilege.
   

 

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