Pitney Bowes Business Insight’s MapInfo® Crime Profiler(™) Puts Crime in Focus for Major Metropolitan Police Forces
September 19 2011 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a global leader in customer data,
analytics and communication software and services, today announced
that law enforcement in major cities, including the London
Metropolitan Police Service, are using the MapInfo® Crime Profiler™
solution for crime and incident mapping and analysis.
MapInfo Crime Profiler enables police departments to visualize
crime patterns, including series, type, time, locale or other
characteristics, in order to help them deploy resources in a more
effective manner. The solution also assists detectives in
identifying and apprehending suspects; and plays a role in
monitoring operations and formulating crime prevention
strategies.
In addition to effective crime analysis, MapInfo Crime Profiler
also reveals fraud patterns clustered around specific locations
such as residences, non-existent business addresses, altered ATMs
and others. MapInfo Crime Profiler is being used by the British
Transport Police to help reduce cable theft across the British rail
network, a top priority for the force and second only to the
terrorist threat.
“We are using MapInfo Crime Profiler to map and analyze those
hotspots where cable theft is most prevalent,” said, Charlotte
Crabtree, Force Principal Analyst at the British Transport Police.
“The mapping tools pull together a number of datasets to help us
identify, for example, the nearest scrap dealers so that we can
direct intelligence checks as soon as a crime occurs and dealers’
books can be immediately inspected by police officers to identify
likely perpetrators.”
“The analysis of persistent crime problems has been used by many
law enforcement agencies to help identify, target and prioritize
suitable areas for crime prevention initiatives,” said Ian
Broadbent, Principal Product Manager Global Public Safety Solutions
at Pitney Bowes Business Insight. “With money tighter than ever for
many police forces, sophisticated and user-friendly technology is
imperative to help them deploy their resources to the fullest
effect.”
MapInfo Crime Profiler features highly visual, interactive
charting and graphing capabilities with sophisticated time-based
analysis. Proximity analysis of crimes to known offenders or
geographical risk factors helps law enforcement officers identify
suspects rapidly. The software also makes it easier for crime
analysts to identify crime patterns and determine how best to
address them.
Interactive hotspot map creation allows analysts to instantly
show how different settings change the representation of the data.
Law enforcement officials can examine a variety of real-time “what
if” scenarios by layering aerial photography, street maps,
demographics, segmentation maps and more. The insight gained from
this level of visual intelligence is powerful for criminal
apprehension, creating effective crime prevention strategies and
for resource deployment.
For more information and to get started with MapInfo Crime
Profiler, please contact the Pitney Bowes Business Insight sales
team at 800-327-8627, or pbbi.sales@pb.com.
About Pitney Bowes Business Insight
Pitney Bowes Business Insight is a software and services company
that provides solutions to help organizations acquire, serve and
grow relationships with customers and citizens. These solutions
enable lifetime customer relationships by integrating data
management, location intelligence, sophisticated predictive
analytics, rules-based decision making and cross-channel customer
interaction management to increase the value of every customer
communication while also delivering operational efficiencies.
Pitney Bowes Business Insight is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a customer communications management
technology leader. For more information, please visit
www.pbinsight.com and www.pb.com.
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