A case in POBITS has several Investigative Areas such as Personal, Education, Relatives and References, etc. Each investigative area has a check box for the Investigator to indicate that the investigative area is complete. Each completed investigative area credits the case Status with a 10% completion factor and the case starts out at 10%. When all Investigative areas are marked complete, the case status will be 100% and the Case Stage will be set to Complete. It's important to note the difference between Complete and Closed. Completed cases remain will appear in all Candidate lists and Closed cases will not.

Further, POBITS keeps track of opened and closed cases and case closure represents completed work. This is a metric that POBITS will provide to management. Therefore, when cases are completed and the disposition is adjudicated, the case should be closed.