ox_mdt
A police mobile data terminal: reports, profiles, warrants, BOLOs and a dispatch map, as a modern React interface.
An MDT is the police side of a roleplay server — the place officers file reports, look up profiles and see where calls are coming from. ox_mdt is the most polished open implementation, and the part that matters for map work is its dispatch view: a live map of active incidents that reads whatever map tiles the server is running.
At a glance
| Maintainer | Overextended |
| Latest release | Rolling — no tagged releases |
| Last code change | 2026-05-04 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript |
| GitHub stars | 56 |
| Status | Active |
Figures read from the repository on 2026-09-22.
Why servers run it
- Reports, profiles, warrants, BOLOs and announcements in one place, backed by MySQL.
- A dispatch map showing live calls rather than a text log.
- Granular permissions, so a cadet and a chief do not see the same buttons.
- React-based UI that does not look like it was written in 2018.
Installing ox_mdt
1. Install oxmysql, ox_lib and a framework
It bridges ESX, QBCore, Qbox and ox_core.
2. Import the SQL
The schema covers reports, profiles, warrants and officers.
3. Set up permissions
The permission table decides who can do what. Getting this right first saves a lot of support tickets later.
What goes wrong
The dispatch map uses the game's map tiles. A replaced minimap changes what officers see in the MDT too, which is usually what you want and occasionally a surprise.
Permissions default to restrictive. An MDT that 'does not work' for everyone except you is almost always the permission table.
ox_mdt — questions people ask
Does an MDT show the custom minimap?
Runs alongside
The shared library half the modern FiveM ecosystem depends on: menus, notifications, progress bars, zones, callbacks and a cache.
The MySQL wrapper the modern FiveM stack runs on: promise-based, prepared-statement aware and a drop-in replacement for mysql-async.
The third-eye interaction system most modern scripts target: look at a thing, get a menu, click an option.