ePolicing™ announces the launch of CrimeMaps and InfoShare for Dalton, Georgia. Key to Dalton’s ePolicing™deployment is a public relations campaign. One element is a press release and blog postings. Additionally, they are also distributing door hangers and using other advertizing to inform the community and involve them in crime awareness and information sharing.
Dalton’s story is a great example of proactive efforts by the Police Department to engage their community in crime reduction practices.
Chief Parker highlights the significance of ePolicingTMCrimeMaps and InfoShare on the local news.
ePolicing™ announces the launch of CrimeMaps and InfoShare in West Vancouver, Canada. The West Vancouver Police Department approached ePolicing™ to help them bring this valuable service to their citizens.
“The West Vancouver Police Department is excited to be the first Canadian police agency to launch the Psomas’ ePolicing™ web-based crime mapping solutions; a new initiative that brings community policing to the internet by providing residents easy access to newsletters, crime trends, crime activity and other important information about their neighbourhood and empowers residents to take charge of keeping their community safe and crime free.
Complimenting the e-Policing program is our recently introduced CompStat process that is designed to collect, analyze and map crime statistics and other essential information in order to not only be more responsive to trends, but also hold police leaders and personnelto a higher standard of accountability. Proactive measures like these instill a new level of confidence and security for West Vancouver residents, thereby building a stronger and safer community for everyone to enjoy.” says Interim Chief Constable Jim ALMAS of the WVPD.
ePolicing™ announces a collaboration with Bair Software. The collaboration will enhance ePolicing’s highly usable community policing tools with Bair Software’s crime analysis capabilities to create enhanced regional crime info and analysis capabilities.
“We are very excited about this collaboration.” says Craig Gooch of ePolicing™ ”Working with Bair we can expand our product line to serve agencies internal crime analysis needs, while keeping with the straightforward intuitive user experience we offer the public.”
ePolicing™ and Bair software will release their new products May 2009.
ePolicing™ announces the launch of CrimeMaps for Savannah, Georgia. Savannah’s department opted to have CrimeMaps and email alerts to keep their citizens up-to-date.
“Savannah’s ePolicing™ system includes a feature we think will really engage the public.” says Jessica Robins Thompson, ePolicing Creative Director. “Citizens enter their email and will get an automated alert that sends them a link to the crimemap for their neighborhood. It’s a great and simple way to remind people to stay on top of what’s happening in their community”
Savannah launches their ePolicing™ solution in the summer of 2008.
LOS ANGELES – Today the Los Angeles Police Department announced its new features on it’s website, including the introduction of satellite imagery in its popular CrimeMaps feature.
CrimeMaps allows users to view updated crime activity anywhere in the city. It is a part of a suite of applications created by ePolicing™, a partnership of Los Angeles firms Lightray Productions and Psomas. ePolicing™ specializes in web applications for Police Departments across the nation.
“CrimeMaps is consistently one of the most popular features on our website. said LAPD Chief William Bratton. “These latest upgrades are part of an ongoing effort to keep our site ahead of the curve in using technology to be transparent and communicate with the public.”
“Providing crime maps satellite imagery with recognizable landmarks take the maps out of the abstract and something relate citizens to.” said Kimberly Brooks, founder of Lightray and ePolicing™.
Users are also no longer required to input or know a specific address to view the maps. Users can simply drag and zoom into the area of the city they’re interested in to get more information. This marks ePolicing’s integration with the widely-used Google Software which will be available to all the departments ePolicing services. “These new ePolicing features represent continuing advancement of the ePolicing product suite providing better value and capabilities to our customers.” adds Craig Gooch, Vice President of Psomas.
This is an exciting upgrade for CrimeMaps, which was heralded by the LA Times, CNN, and MSNBC as the first of its kind in technology integration and ease of use when it launched in 2006.
Another new feature is LAPDTV.org, an expansion of the site’s capacity to offer videos. In addition to messages from the Chief, the LAPD will offer “Inside the LAPD,” a weekly television series carried and broadcast by LA Cityview 35, the official cable television channel for the City of Los Angeles. LAPDTV.org will also offer a section called “Solve a Crime,” where surveillance videos of crimes caught on tape can be viewed, allowing the public an opportunity to provide information that could lead to a suspect’s capture and arrest. “By employing Google’s video player, LAPDTV.org provides the videos on a system that many users are already familiar with and more universally accessible.” Added Brooks.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – ePolicing™ has been tapped by the San Francisco Police Department to implement it’s groundbreaking InfoShare software. The SFPD wanted a streamlined system to communicate with constituents and extend their community policing efforts.
Infoshare first developed in close coordination with the LAPD is highly scalable, working both for Departments large and small. “We are excited to bring Infoshare to San Francisco. says Kimberly Brooks of ePolicing. “We’ve seen a groundswell of enthusiasm in Los Angeles ePolicing’s community outreach arm. We look forward to seeing San Francisco use the Internet to help keep the city safe.”
