Crime Analyst
CurrentPerforms routine crime analysis duties - developing regular crime and calls for service bulletins; conducting and presenting historical analysis; assists with research projects. Identifies current crime series and hot spots and prepare action plan for suppression. Identifies crime patterns for commonalities and offender localities for investigative purposes. Develops rapport with outside agencies, law enforcement, and legal personnel and arranges for case information exchange. Provides accurate, timely and relevant analysis of crime patterns and trends that aid in the efficient deployment of department resources. Analyzes known offenders' MO's and establishes timelines to perform suspect/crime correlation in order to provide suspect leads and targets for surveillance or directed patrol. Collect and route crime bulletins from surrounding law enforcement agencies; highlight relevant information or provide intelligence.Review a variety of information, including crime reports and associated databases for the purpose of finding patterns in criminal activity. Relate those patterns to crimes that are concurrently being investigated and disseminate information as needed. Develop, organize, analyze, and disseminate information on crime patterns and trends to provide operational units with knowledge for effective operational strategies and for the prevention and investigation of crimes. Use computer databases, electronic spreadsheets, geographic information systems (GIS) applications, desktop publishing, word processing, and statistical applications to analyze and present crime data. Provides case support through developing suspect leads, locating addresses, vehicles, associates, or other relevant information on offenders, identifying victims and associated cases.
