Welcome
• Thank you to our sponsors
– Conference sponsor: Home Office
– Bag sponsor: MapInfo-GDC
– Drinks reception sponsor: Northgate Information Solutions
• Thank you to our exhibitors
– Extended break this afternoon to tour the stands
– Use the time during the reception as well
• Thank you to our speakers, class facilitators and poster
presenters
• Thank you to our Steering Group
• And thank you for coming!
Who’s here?
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Who’s been before?
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Police
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, Community Safety
Other local government
Central Government
Academia
Commercial sector
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Analyst
Information management
Researcher
Management/decision-making role (police, community safety)
Policy maker
Consultant (software, data, training)
Technology developer
Conference programme
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We listen to feedback!
Two plenaries
– The geographical dimension to intelligence development
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Question Time
– Question cards
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20 presentations across the seminar streams
– Best conference presentation prize
– Two night weekend break (for two people)
at the Malmaison Hotel Newcastle
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5 posters
15 classes
– All classes still have places available
– Ask and register at the conference desk
Delegate bags
• Conference booklet
– Abstracts are arranged in programme order
• This year’s gift!
• Delegate list, AGI Chartered Geographer CPD scheme,
leaflets on our contributors and supporters, JDI training
courses, AGI pencil!
• JDI Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis
Conference, 18th July, London
– Aimed at analysts, police officers, CDRPs and policy makers
– The speakers are all experts in problem solving and crime
reduction: Ken Pease, John Eck, Ron Clarke, David Kennedy, Kim
Rossmo, Paul Brantingham
– We are not going to do it again!
Sessions and rooms
• Seminar streams
– Tower 1: All parallel session A’s
– Bridge 2: All parallel session B’s
• Classes: 12th Floor
– You will be directed from there
– Please give yourself enough time to get to your class
– 150 people can not get in one lift 5 mins before the
class!
What has happened in the last year?
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Home Office PSU ‘Crime
Mapping: Improving Performance’
– ACPO Geographic Analysis
Working Group
– ACPO Geographic Information
Board
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Home Office ‘The use of GIS by
crime analysts in England and
Wales’
CDRP Reforms
Crime Mapping Case Studies
– Due to publication in October
2007
And sales of ‘GIS and Crime Mapping’ have
continued to keep it in the best sellers list …
£32.50, but special discount for delegates!