The small municipal police department is one category of many that include more than 17,000 public safety and law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and as you know, the quality of intelligence sharing between agencies varies greatly.

1. Maximizing Your
Own Crime Fighting
Capabilities,
Affordably

2. Summary
The small municipal police department is one
category of many that include more than 17,000
public safety and law enforcement agencies in the
U.S. and as you know, the quality of intelligence
sharing between agencies varies greatly.

3. Some police forces benefit from close
collaboration with federal agencies or fusion
centers. But even if this collaborative link exists, it
may not solve all of crime fighting capabilities your
community demands.
Summary

4. Trade Shows
At trade shows we are dazzled with technology
and tactical devices that can empower us to
protect our officers and communities—but it all
comes with a price tag, and even with federal
grants, there are still tough choices to be made in
the context of the yearly budget.

5. Data Driven
21st Century crime fighting will be driven by better
data to drive more accurate investigations and
proactive community policing, but smaller police
departments may feel they’re on the outside
looking in.

6. Q&A
Q: Can small municipalities marshal technology
that turns them into 21st Century crime fighting
units?
A: Yes they can, but only with a purposeful and
efficient approach.

7. Data Integration
You’ve more than likely heard of the sophisticated
data integration and analysis capabilities that help
HQ and command make better sense of crime
data, leading to quicker apprehension of suspects
and proactive capabilities.

8. For Example
Increasing patrols in an area where particular
crime patterns have been analyzed and pinpointed
on the map in space and time.

9. Resource Allocation
Predictive analytics enables first responders
and other public safety officers to best allocate
limited resource pools by understanding where
to maximize their efforts.
Using pre-existing data, predictive analytics
empowers leaders to be proactive, instead of
reactive, while still providing quality services
and making progress towards civil goals and
objectives.

10. Pattern Recognition
This technology incorporates the individual and
collective experience of officers into pattern
recognition and prediction processes by allowing
that experience to be translated into courses of
action.

11. Analysis
Empowering police and other public safety
personnel to capture and analyze critical
information through the power of data integration,
analysis and visualization means safer
communities.

12. Adoption
But no small municipal entity wants to leverage
their budget against a large, heavy IT project that
may or may not support your agency’s
prerogatives or the way your commanders and
officers need to work together.

13. Factors
• Price tag
• Implementation
• Time
• Adoption (“Does anybody actually use this
thing?”)
These are all factors to be aware of as you seek
technological avenues for expanding intel, safety
and crime fighting capabilities.

14. System Functionality
Nobody wants to be the agency that acquired a
non-sustainable system that requires continual
heavy support from your vendor, takes a long time
to implement, and is designed by IT-centric people
based on how they think police agencies should
work, rather than how they actually work.

15. Partnering Up
Sophisticated, data-driven policing is within reach
if your technology vendor acts like a partner and is
willing to tailor their solution to maximize your
budget dollar and fit the way you need to work.
And it may be more affordable than you think,
providing that your technology partner can answer
these tough questions:

16. Questions
• Can the system be customized to support the
requirements of a specific organization?
• What is the actual cost of acquiring and
maintaining the system? Is the vendor completely
transparent about these costs?
• Will my officers, commanders and investigators
actually use it?

17. Level the Playing Field
If the answer is “yes” across the board, you will be
able to level the playing field between your agency
and larger, better-funded organizations, as well as
increase your collaborative power and ability to
deliver on the promise of safer communities.