With you, making Surrey safer
With you, making Surrey safer
Using Internal Mapping
Websites to Provide
Non-Emergency Support in
Surrey Police
Thomas Rodger – Mapping & Data Officer
Overview
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Introduction
Background
ƒ Reassurance and Neighbourhood Policing
ƒ Current Systems
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The Neighbourhood Mapping Tool
ƒ A Need for New Tools
ƒ How it works
ƒ Feedback, Setbacks, and the Way Forward.
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Conclusion
Questions?
Background – Policing in 2005
• Reassurance Policing is…
“… listening to, and working with, local people and tackling crimes that
concern them most” (OffBeat, January 2005).
• Neighbourhood Policing
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Greater Visible Police Presence
Start of 2005
ƒ 120 Neighbourhood Specialist Officers (NSOs)
ƒ 70 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs)
• New Tools to Support New Roles
ƒ What Mapping tools for NSOs and PCSOs ?
Background – Tools of the Trade
• Current Systems
ƒ Command and Control Systems
ƒ ICAD Map View
ƒ Desktop GIS
ƒ Spatial analysis of crime patterns
ƒ Paper based products for operational support
• Limitations
ƒ Designed for Emergency Support
ƒ Over qualified
ƒ Multiple license costs
ƒ Extensive training
Background Mapping Crown
Copyright©. Surrey Police Licence
Number 100021978 2005
Information Everywhere
New Tool Requirements
• The Need
ƒ A tool to search on recent events within each NSO’s Area
• Requirements
ƒ Accessible across the Force
ƒ Simple to use
ƒ Minimal Training
ƒ Cost Effective to Create, Deploy and Maintain
• Solutions
ƒ Mapping Applications
ƒ Web-based
How it Works
• Keeping it Simple
• 4 Sources of Data
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ICAD Events (Data Warehouse in Oracle)
Crime – CIS (Data Warehouse in Oracle)
NSO Patches (GeoMedia Smartstore flat file)
Raster Mapping (.tiff files)
• 3 Web Pages
ƒ The Search Page
ƒ The Results Page
ƒ The Map Page
The Search Page
The Results Page
The Map Page
The Tool In Daily Use
• Interface to Data Warehouses
• Effective for Self Briefing at Start of Shift
• Meets Requirements
“This is a very useful piece of kit which will save us a lot of time investigating
what has been going on in our areas when we have not been at work.”
PC Simon Berger, NSO.
Setbacks & Skill Sets
• Setbacks – Data Source Problems
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Poor Oracle Performance
ƒ In the Hands of a DBA
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Disparate Locations on Each Event
ƒ ICAD vs. Crime
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Not “Live”
ƒ 24hour delay on current events
• Skill sets
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Mapping & Data Management Team
ƒ Cartographic, GIS, Application Programming
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Needed
ƒ GeoMedia WebMap, VB Scripting, ASP, JavaScript
The Way Forward
• The Way Forward – Flexibility & Expandability
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New Layers of information
ƒ Stop / Search Information
ƒ Road Traffic Collision Information
ƒ Anti-social Behaviour Orders
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Mobile / Handheld technology
Conclusion
Questions?
Acknowledgments
ƒ Many Thanks to the Team at Intergraph UK for their
ongoing technical support.
Contact Details
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Thomas Rodger
ƒ Mapping & Data Officer
ƒ Address: Surrey Police Headquarters
Mount Browne
Sandy Lane
Guildford
GU3 1HG
United Kingdom
ƒ Tel:
+44 (0)1483 482 352
ƒ Email:
rodger11004@surrey.pnn.police.uk
ƒ Web:
www.surrey.police.uk