800-13 Collection And Dissemination If Police Services Information

Question 1

is the term used to describe the combination of crime event data and computer aided dispatch (CAD) event data. These processes impact not only internal operations, but also how the department interacts with external groups such as other law enforcement and government agencies, private citizens, business groups, elected officials, and the media

Answer 1

Police service information

Question 2

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program used by law enforcement agencies for collecting and reporting crime event data. National criminal offense data types are divided by two major groups:

Answer 2

Group A offenses and Group B offenses

Question 3

A monthly statistical report that is compiled and generated by the department’s Office of Planning & Data Governance after all the incident reports for the previous month have been through the staff review process. This report is considered the Police Department’s
official crime statistics report. Data from this report are available on the department’s public website and are subsequently published in the FBl’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS

Answer 3

Operational Crime Summery Report

Question 4

Planning is also responsible for producing the Annual Crime Report,
crime analysis and other internal operations require additional real-time information. For that reason, crime event data are exported from the department’s records management system into the Crime Analysis Server (CAS) every __________ and _______ into COPLINK. The
crime event data stored in the CAS

Answer 4

Every 4 hours and once daily

Question 5

The information in the “Operational Crime Summery Report” and “CAD event reports” are considered departments official records and

Answer 5

Shall be used for press conferences and briefings by the Chief of Police or the Mayor.