The Police Foundation and the International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA) are inviting California and Nevada law enforcement executives to a free symposium that will provide them an overview of crime analysis best practices and organizational considerations necessary to integrate crime analysis and evidence-based policing strategies into their agencies’ everyday practices, making them more effective and efficient in reducing crime in their communities. This unique opportunity is supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and will be led by a selected cadre of crime analysis and evidence-based policing experts.
The symposium will be held in Oakland, California on Thursday, April 30th at the California Endowment Oakland Conference Center, 1111 Broadway, 7th Floor, Oakland, CA. The symposium, entitled “Advancing Policing Through Innovation and Science: A Crime Analysis Symposium for Law Enforcement Leaders,” will show executives how to focus their use of crime analysis by matching the appropriate type of analysis to the appropriate rank and division in the agency, so that crime reduction at all levels is informed by actionable crime analysis.
This symposium has been developed based on the best practices of crime analysis and draws on the expertise of the Police Foundation and the IACA as well as their affiliates and members. The Police Foundation has been advancing police methods for 40 years through research and working with police departments to put that research into practical use. The International Association of Crime Analysts is a professional association established 24 years ago made up of more than 2,200 crime analyst members in 48 countries.
The symposium presenters have extensive experience in providing law enforcement leaders the tools to use crime analysis most effectively. The team includes a law enforcement executive, a criminologist, and a crime analyst familiar with the integration of crime analysis. Executives will be shown how to expand the use of crime analysis throughout their agencies to process data they are already collecting.
The expert team will explore how agencies of all sizes can integrate approaches such as problem-oriented policing, hot-spots policing, community policing, predictive policing and intelligence-led policing. The symposium will include discussions about “what works,” and will make recommendations based on nationally recognized best practices which will include both promising and evidence based practices.
For more information on the Crime Analysis Workshops for Law Enforcement Executives, contact Adam Kaufman at the Police Foundation, (202) 833-1460 or email akaufman@policefoundation.org.
For online registration: http://www.iaca.net/training_registration_start.asp?cid=1112