Law Enforcement

Lew Nelson, law enforcement industry manager at ESRI, discusses how GIS helps proactively fight crime, maximize resources, and aid community outreach.

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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]

Success Stories

Learn how law enforcement organizations benefit from the use of geographic analysis and GIS.

• Determining Anchor Points for Sex Offenders Using GPS Data
• Intelligence-Led Policing Gives a Crime-Fighting Advantage
• High-Tech Crime Mapping [PDF]

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