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Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Tracy Molfino
City of Salinas
222 Lincoln Avenue
Salinas, CA 93901
Telephone: 408-758-7348
Fax: 408-770-0501
E-mail: molfino@salinaspd.com
Jerry Paul, Rob Fisher, Georgia Prichett
Implementation of GIS for Community-Oriented Policing
In October of 1995, the Salinas Police Department received a grant to implement an innovative problem solving program to combat youth firearms violence. The grant, administered through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), allowed the City of Salinas and the Police Department to build a mapping and analysis application using GIS technologies. The City of Salinas had been capturing all police report information in its City database since 1982. This information is used to form the foundation of the information searched and spatially displayed. The Salinas Information Systems Department along with Esri worked for several months developing the application that is now in use by Salinas police officers. An application developed by Esri in Visual Basic allows the officers to build queries in an interactive format. These queries are then automatically sent to ArcView for the actual searches. Additional tools were built into ArcView to make viewing, retrieving, and printing data easier.
Three police GIS workstations are networked to various locations in the police building. Training was given to the entire sworn force on the police application by the project manager for Esri. The three workstations were put into place at the Police Department on May 13, 1996.
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