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Data Analytics Accelerator for Policing

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner and proven experts in the police sector, we have worked with many UK forces helping them overcome their data challenges, implementing a range of data and analytical solutions using the Microsoft Platform, including Power BI and other real time reporting solutions.

With our extensive knowledge and experience within the sector, we have developed the Data Analytics Accelerator for Policing – a packaged solution to accelerate your adoption of analytics.

Incident and Crime Reporting

Many police forces have access to a front-end application that can provide an element of incident and crime reporting information in real time. However, for the majority, these applications can be difficult to use, inflexible, or outdated.

Using a data analysis system that is not fit for purpose can become an extra barrier to accessing information, creating manual and data intensive cases. With a lack of police analyst resource, this can result in hundreds of man-hours to produce critical reports.

Simpson Associates is a full service analytics consultancy who has worked with several police forces, enabling them to benefit from having one source system that brings all data together in one place. They then simply need to log into Power BI or whatever reporting tool they use, to access the information they need. From department heads to officers, station managers to sergeants, staff right across the force can re-allocate the time spent looking for information into keeping the streets safer.

Telephony Reporting Analytics

Many police forces we speak to understand the importance of maintaining call centre service levels, to ensure agents can answer calls in the time needed. An understaffed workforce can impact  on officer deployment, and their ability to quickly deal with incidents quickly.

If your force is understaffed, your service level drops. This can have a knock-on effect on non-emergency calls, which may face longer wait times due to all staff directed to emergency calls. Being able to understand what demands are being placed on your team is therefore imperative.

Simpson Associates is a full service analytics consultancy. We can enable better decision making with telephone reporting analytics technology. Our solution can help you understand what resources are available, and if they are suitable to meet the demands being placed on your team. You can also determine what skills are required at peak times, and how to avoid being overstaffed during quiet times to help minimise the risk of officers and call centre staff being over worked at another part of the day.

Neighbourhood Analytics

The increasing availability of information and new technologies can offer police forces the ability to monitor staff movement. By using maps that can track movement and the number and type of incidents police attend, police forces can get data out to officers on the beat, on a day to day basis.

Providing the right level of data access is vital to police forces. Our technology enables forces to quickly deploy police on the beat armed with valuable information on an individual’s criminal record. This includes: MO in offences, current criminal activity, domestic violence records, the latest intelligence on the cars they are driving, the phones they are using, and current associates.

Simpson Associates is a full service data analytics consultancy. We have worked with several police forces to implement Neighbourhood Analytics and can help transform your force, enabling your officers to better serve the public.

Predictive Crime Mapping & Demand Planning

Is your force looking to make use of the latest crime prediction software? Predictive Analysis and Artificial Intelligence have the ability to provide new insights into gun and knife crime, sex trafficking and other serious crimes.

At a time when police budgets are under huge pressure, Artificial Intelligence can be used to predict serious violent crime. Individuals can be flagged so that interventions can be actioned before a potential crime is committed.

Simpson Associates is a full service analytics consultancy. We have worked with several police forces to implement Predictive Crime Mapping and can help transform your force, enabling your officers to better serve the public.

Fleet Management Analytics

Many police forces are looking to adapt Fleet Management Analytics to improve the management of their fleet of cars, using accurate data to maximize the efficiency of each vehicle and officer.

Live vehicle mapping can be used to see which officer is on route and who is on scene. This can be overlaid with historic data, that can be used to understand how long they are typically required to be on scene at any particular crime. It can alert the controller if an officer is taking abnormal about of time, allowing the controller to deploy more personnel if there is an issue.

Simpson Associates is a full service data analytics consultancy. We have worked with several police forces to implement Fleet Management Analytics, and can help your force better understand, control, and manage the time it takes to be at and attend a crime scene. Your force gets to improve fleet management and ensure the public is being served in a more efficient manner.

Data Quality Management

Poor data is holding many police forces back. It may be preventing the integration of case management systems containing important information such as information about crimes, missing persons, suspects, and witnesses.

Your organisation may have attempted to combine data warehousing with analytics. However, if sitting on top of existing systems, this may not provide the most transparency when it comes to data. The result: a path with no clear view of how to get data in the right shape for analysis.

Our data solution gets your data into the right shape, fast. It does this by generating applications that combine data integration, data quality, and master data management to deliver information from one single trusted source that can be hosted in the cloud or on premise.

We can deliver a swift installation by a team of experts, able to reduce the time taken to complete a typical project from years, to months, to even weeks.