Law Enforcement

Officers from the Shelby police department use GIS to visualize and analyze crime patterns, and to help predict future crime incidents.

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Law Enforcement Presentations Video and slide presentations, by law enforcement experts, discuss how GIS has contributed to their mission.

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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.

• Probationers Monitored and Public Safety Improved with GIS
• Intelligence-Led Policing Gives a Crime-Fighting Advantage
• GIS Gives Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau Improved Incident Tracking
• United States Postal Service Fights Crime with GIS

More case studies, demos, and books and white papers.