Jill Barclay and Andy Gilmour co-authored a 2008 account of New Zealand Police’s GIS and crime-mapping tools. Their chapter described the move towards web-based GIS and development of the map-based analytical policing system (MAPS). It provides a practitioner account of the systems behind Police’s use of location information.
A later practitioner account by Andy Gilmour and Jill Barclay records that geographic analysis was identified as a key reporting capability during development of Police’s operational records system. Police wanted analysts to ask what had happened, where it had happened, when it had happened and what else had occurred nearby. That requirement placed location alongside offence type, time, people and other recorded attributes as a working part of crime analysis.
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Sources and further reading · 3
- Andy Gilmour and Jill Barclay, Developing Geographical Information Systems and Crime Mapping Tools in New Zealand, 2008
- Accessible book preview: Andy Gilmour and Jill Barclay, Developing Geographical Information Systems and Crime Mapping Tools in New Zealand, 2008
- Chapter 28 · Crime enters the records system
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- Crime enters the records systemPolicing and public safety