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Denver (CO) Police Find Rewards in Data Sharing
"On a side note I used CADmine to connect a crime placed in a special crime bulletin from Arvada PD to a crime here in Denver using CADmine by searching by a license plate number. The CAD incident was the same type of crime and the witnesses saw the same license plate. I took the information to our robbery section and they had other cases on the same suspect, but were unaware of the cases outside of Denver. Now we have all the agencies cooperating on the prosecutions and search for this guy. Thanks CADmine!"
—Lt. Nagel
Aurora (CO) Police Capture Attributed to CADmine Clues
"I can honestly say that I rely on CADmine every day to make my job easier and to be able to spot emerging issues right away. I would not want to do this job without it."
—Crime Analyst, Colorado
About a year ago I was reading CAD calls when I read a call for Indecent Exposure at a health club. There was no case report, and not much information. A week later, I read another CAD call, same location, again no case report. There was a license plate listed in the notes and a good physical description. The next day there was another CAD call, again no case report, at a Safeway grocery store not far from there, same physical description.
I pulled the license plate info and gave the info to the Police Area Representative. The officers went to the health club and found 4 more victims that didn't report it, and an employee who had seen the vehicle there several times. I did a date/time probability search and created a map for the officers. The car listed to an older man but the description of the suspect was 19-20 yrs old. Officers did surveillance on the health club on the dates/times suggested and observed the suspect drive through the parking lot. He was contacted and confessed to 7 incidents there as well as several others. He was very remorseful and had some mental issues with dealing with stress in his life.
If I had not had easy access to the CAD info, this would not have been discovered until/or when an officer wrote a report, and none of the responding officers advised the PAR officer or me of any of the incidents. We got him before he could escalate into something worse as he admitted that he tried to get two teenage girls to get into his car.
Corona (CA) Police Reduce Commercial Burglaries by Over 50%
CADmine Early Warning System, trend analysis feature "key factor" in reducing commercial burglaries.
The Corona Police Department was assisted in reducing their commercial burglaries over 50% from the previous 18 months using the Early Warning, trend analysis feature in Corona Solutions CADmine.
San Jose (CA) CADmine Alert Locates Critical Witness to Homicide
"Thank you…thank you…thank you. This alert hit just saved me hours if not days of looking for this homeless guy in the creeks"
—Detective Sergeant Ed Zarate assigned to the San Jose Police Department Homicide Unit.
Sergeant Zarate was working a six-month-old homicide investigation. The victim was a transient who was stomped to death while sleeping in his sleeping bag. Having been unable to locate one of the main witnesses, and after just receiving his CADmine training, Sergeant Zarate set up a CADmine Alert. He asked to be notified in the event any contact was made with one of the witnesses needed for court. After setting up the alert, the detective was notified within 24 hours. The alert indicated another officer had contact with the main witness for drunk in public. The witness was located for his crucial testimony in this case.
"Many transients live on our creek beds and under bridges throughout our city. One of our transients was stomped to death in his sleeping bag by 3 other transients. The one person I requested an alert for was one of the witnesses of the murder. I was looking for him because his court testimony is important to put the 3 suspects away for very long time. Looking for him would have required me to go walk the creeks and under bridges but since I got the hit from your CAD Alert I was able to find him in 15 minutes. Thanks again for saving me from going under those bridges."
Corona (CA) Police Evaluate 12-hour Patrol Shifts
by Jim Dillon, Police Administrative Aide (Captain, retired)
The Corona CA Police Department was asked to review its personnel schedule plans. The Police Department has for many years scheduled a 10-Plan (officers work 10 hours X 4 days a week). Many southern California agencies use a 12-Plan. There is debate as to which plan is best and the advantages or disadvantages of each. A group of personnel was assembled that represented various functions of the organization, including the POA, to research and recommend a best plan. Other police departments on the 12-Plan were contacted. It became evident that many implemented their plans during a time when statistical or objective data was lacking.
Fortunately for us, we had recently purchased Corona Solutions products of CADmine, Staff Wizard and GeoBalance and which were interfaced with our CAD system. Staff Wizard became essential in analyzing workload by hour of day and day of week. The function of ‘Probability of All Units Busy’ easily identified problem hours and days of the week. Staff Wizard's charts and graphs provided easy to see data for supervisors and administrators that were convincing as to recommending schedules that would improve the availability of resources during the hours and days that needed those resources.
The recommended schedules are being vetted by the affected divisions and city functions and should be implemented over the coming months. The Corona Police Department is currently staffed with 158 sworn personnel policing a rapidly growing city of 140,000. The city of 40 square miles has experienced an annual 8% population increase for several years. Prior to the purchase of the Corona Solutions products, the Police Department committed substantial staff time for research and justification of staff increases. This has been greatly improved by Staff Wizard which enables the Corona Police Department to display convincing scientific data, graphs, and charts, for recommended staff increases, to the City Manager and City Council.
A public safety sub-station (combined Police and Fire) is presently under construction in a newly developed part of the City. It will require redeployment of field personnel. We know that Corona Solutions' GeoBalance will be critical to meeting our rezoning of patrol beats. GeoBalance will enable us to review workload and patrol data for all areas of the city and implement a city-wide redeployment plan. CADmine has greatly improved our analysis of calls for service, particularly identifying problem areas quickly. With its numerous statistical and event information reports, CADmine has become an additional resource to our crime analysis unit.