What is Crime Analysis?

Crime Analysis Unit

Mission

Serve as an analytical resource to prevent and deter crime and assist in the apprehension of criminals for the safety of our community.

How We Do It

The Crime Analysis Unit reviews and analyzes all information, including crime reports, calls for service, arrest reports, field interview cards as well as crime patterns in neighboring jurisdictions such as Loomis, Roseville and Lincoln. In addition, the Crime Analysis Unit identifies crime patterns, hot spots, and trends and also provides officers and investigators with information necessary to identify criminal offenders.

Crime Analysis Personnel
The Rocklin Police Department Crime Analysis Unit is comprised of one full-time Community Services Officer. The Rocklin Police Department's Crime Analysis Unit performs three types of Crime Analysis: Tactical, Strategic, and Administrative.

Types of Crime Analysis

• Tactical Crime Analysis deals with immediate criminal offenses to promote quick response. It provides information to assist operational personnel in the identification of specific crime trends and in the arrest of criminal offenders. The primary goal is to identify crime trends and patterns/series. Tactical information links offender and modus operandi information from a number of offenses in an attempt to provide investigative leads, help solve crimes, and clear cases after apprehension and arrests.
  
  
• Strategic Crime Analysis is concerned with operational strategies and seeks solutions to on-going problems. It provides information for resource allocation purposes, including patrol scheduling and beat configuration. Its purpose is to identify unusual crime activities over certain levels or at different seasonal times, identify unusual community conditions, provide police service more effectively and efficiently by matching demands for service with service delivery, reduce and/or eliminate recurring problems, and assist in community policing or problem oriented policing.
  
  
• Administrative Crime Analysis involves long range projects. Tasks include providing economic, geographic and law enforcement information to police management, city hall, city council, and neighborhood/citizen groups. Its purpose is financial, organizational, political, and legislative. It is critical to budget, personnel, public information, and legal issues.