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Philadelphia PD Goes Big with ESRI. Very Big.

PPD now has one of the largest public safety GIS implementations in the country that helps keep its officers and citizens safer.
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ArcGIS as a System

ArcGIS is a system that facilitates collaboration and author data depending on the needs of your organization.
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Upcoming Events

Join us at one of these upcoming events for law enforcement. Meet members of the Public Safety Team, see the latest GIS solutions, and network with your peers.
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Esri's network of partners provide leading solutions to meet your industry-specific needs. Find the right partner for your industry here.
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Law Enforcement

Whether you are an officer on patrol, an analyst looking for patterns and trends, or a manager allocating resources, GIS is valuable for all aspects of law enforcement [PDF].

Today, law enforcement agencies face new tasks and challenges. To address these ever-expanding responsibilities, GIS can help leverage the massive amounts of location-based data collected each day to create actionable intelligence you can use and share.

GIS provides solutions used by thousands of agencies worldwide for investigations, operations, planning, and administration. ArcGIS helps with

Crime and investigative analysis [PDF]
Data fusion [PDF] and intelligence analysis [PDF]
Tracking vehicles and personnel
Corrections [PDF], parole, and probation
In-vehicle mobile mapping
Traffic and accident analysis
Intelligence-led policing [PDF]

New workbook from Esri Press combines step-by-step tutorials with independent exercises to teach readers the skills needed to apply mapping and analysis to police work.

Will Gorr discusses his and Kristen S. Kurland's new book, GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis.
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