Nottinghamshire Police is receiving daily, rather than
monthly, updates about crime in the county after implementing
business intelligence software.
The force integrated Business Objects' Performance Manager
software with its core crime-reporting application, ABM Crime
Module.
Performance Manager, which is repopulated with data from the
ABM system every day between 6am and 7am, enables officers to
search for different types of crime and for levels of crime in
different areas.
Before Performance Manager was implemented, officers had to wait
for monthly reports from the National Management Information System
- an application that Nottinghamshire Police uses to file its
regulatory returns.
When the police force's crime analysts start work at 7am, they
can use the data to predict where crimes will happen that day. An
accurate pattern of burglaries, for example, might indicate where
criminals are likely to strike next.
Martin Hansen, director of information network services at
Nottinghamshire Police, said, "It enables us to look long and hard
at the operational activities of individual officers. With that
knowledge, we can then say how people are performing."
The force has spent the past six months implementing Performance
Manager and Business Objects' Dashboard Manager.
Because it has an enterprise agreement with the supplier, the
police force is able to increase the number of officers using the
system at any time. IT is currently used by 50 staff.