Technical Support and Crime Analysis units are responsible for providing information and assistance to police officers, investigators and the community through local and wide area networks, computerized police department systems and regional criminal justice systems. Crime Analysis provides useful information to aid police personnel in crime prevention.
Crime analysis identifies and analyzes methods of operations of individual criminals, providing crime pattern recognition and providing analysis of data from various criminal justice databases. Crime analysis also provides estimates of future crime trends and assists in the identification of enforcement priorities.