As the public becomes increasingly interested in police transparency, departments must find new ways to proactively manage patrol, showcase positive police actions, and answer questions like:
“How do your officers know where their patrol presence is needed most?”
“What are your officers doing when they are not actively answering a 911 call?”
We may be quick to answer these questions with statements like “They’re doing police work” or “They know the hotspots based on their experience.” However, what has satisfied the public and our city partners in the past may no longer paint a sufficient picture of all the good work our officers are doing in the community. If we cannot articulate what we do, then at best, we allow the public to fill in the blanks with ideas from popular television and film, and at worst, we empower them to fill in the blanks with assumptions about the lack of police transparency and accountability. That’s where proactive patrol management through ResourceRouter can help. After all, in public service, it’s not necessarily what we do but how well we can articulate what we do.
Proactive Patrol Management
What is it worth for your agency to take control of the narrative?
Until now, staffing shortages, manual reports, and data siloes have made it difficult for agencies to take steps towards becoming a data-driven police force and implementing meaningful transparency measures that showcase positive police actions. Consider that improvements in a few key areas may help you unlock the full potential of both sworn and civilian members of your force.
PROACTIVE PATROL
How do your officers know where their patrol presence is needed most?
Patrol officers tend to spend discretionary time in the same high-activity areas based on their experience and past observations. This can create routines that criminal actors catch on to. As much as we can review the data and make inferences about patterns of criminal behavior, potential perpetrators of violent crime can use our routines against us as well.
Implementing automated patrol plans and data-driven directed patrol recommendations based upon multiple data streams is a great way to disrupt patterns of criminal behavior and deter violent crime. ResourceRouter uses location-based crime data and non-crime external risk terrain data to generate patrol plans based on your jurisdiction’s highest-risk and highest-need areas.
ResourceRouter can help your agency take a community-first approach to crime deterrence by directing officers to where their presence will have the highest impact and helping them bring in non-law enforcement intervention to high-need areas.
RESPONSIVE PATROL
How efficiently can you mobilize patrol for pre-planned events or spontaneous deployments?
Improving patrol efficiency and automating much of the manual CompStat reporting process can free up our analysts and intelligence officers to focus on intelligence-driven strategies and leverage their insights to better inform command staff in the event of specialized unit deployment, crowd and traffic management, community events, and much more.
These custom ad hoc deployment areas can also include links to additional systems, Active Warrant Lists, BOLOs, and any other appropriate resources your agency deems appropriate.
PATROL INSIGHTS
What are your officers doing when they’re not actively responding to a 9-1-1 call?
ResourceRouter has easy-to-use Data Management and Reporting Tools that can help analysts and supervisors answer this question confidently with patrol-generated data and reports about where your patrol officers have the biggest impact on crime.
Over time, this can help establish sustainable and effective patrol strategies and empower Command Staff to inform our communities and city partners about how we are reducing crime and positively impacting public safety outcomes.
PATROL INFORMATION
Can your patrol officers easily access and share the information they need?
In a high-priority response scenario, officers shouldn’t have to worry about looking up apartment building access codes, calling the station for nuisance property call history, or using any other slow, outdated reference tactics.
ResourceRouter helps agencies protect against the loss of institutional knowledge from seasoned officers with customizable map layers and referenceable and actionable information tailored to their agency and community needs.
By assembling agency-specific intel, relevant location history, and much more in one easy-to-access interface, we can amplify officer safety and situational awareness, streamline communications between patrol and HQ, and ultimately keep our officers’ focus where it should be—in the field.
Because when officers have better information at their fingertips, they can make the best decisions for the communities they serve.