Crime Analysis

"Crime analysis impacts all areas and operations of a police department by refining and distributing useful information. Departments have used crime analysis effectively to improve their operations and administration; realign districts and deploy personnel, and develop investigative leads."

The office of crime analysis primarily studies 'Part One' offenses reported to the police department throughout Frederick city. Once refined, and issued as a departmental intelligence report, this information can be essential to both immediate departmental operations or planning for future agency needs.

Crime analysis produces and refines statistical trends as well as studies current and potential future criminal activities.

An aspect of analysis concerns crime event mapping. By using Geographical Information Science (GIS) technology, the analyst locates crime events throughout the city and analyzes them via varied GIS spatial techniques.

The Frederick Police Department has enjoyed numerous and sustained successes in crime event prediction through the use of GIS technology and other crime analysis techniques. Implemented prediction analysis results in directed deployment, and frequently either the apprehension of suspects and/or cessation of that criminal pattern of events.