Crime Analyst

Veterans' Preference Applies

Veterans' preference applies.

The City of Delray Beach does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age or disability, marital status, family status or sexual orientation in employment or the provision of services.

The City of Delray Beach is a Non-Tobacco Workplace. The City will not consider applicants who have used tobacco or nicotine products for a period of at least three months prior to application for employment. The definition of "tobacco or nicotine products" includes but is not limited to cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, pipes, snuff, e-cigarettes and nicotine patches or gum.

This position involves analysis duties such as developing regular crime and calls for service bulletins; conducting and presenting historical analysis on both general and specific crime and calls for service information; analyzing data for crime trends, undertaking tactical crime analysis, assisting with comprehensive research projects, and providing real‑time support for the Real Time Crime Center. Position is accountable for receiving, analyzing, and collating raw criminal data and producing accurate trends, reports, and information to assist with crime prevention.

Work is performed under general direction.

• Develop and maintain Tactical, Strategic, Administrative and Operational analytical capabilities. Conduct statistical, strategic, and tactical crime analyses and plans, identifying current crime series and hot spots. Prepare monthly, quarterly, annual, and on‑request reports.
• Respond to ad‑hoc requests for data and reports from all levels and units of the department. Provide information to police and city administration for decision‑making purposes, present analysis, and statistics in various internal and external forums. Provide a forecast of trends to aid in staffing and deployment of police personnel.
• Perform confidential analytical work in the review, examination, and compilation of highly sensitive and complex data regarding criminal activities and investigations.
• Develop and maintain highly complex databases, maps, charts, and reports utilizing state‑of‑the‑art spreadsheet, database, GIS mapping and link analysis software applications.
• Create maps, tables, charts, and graphs and perform analysis to demonstrate relationships between entities and events.
• Conduct weekly, monthly, annual, and on‑request briefings and presentations of analytical findings and conclusions utilizing prepared maps, tables, charts, and graphs indicating criminal trends and provide analysis and explanations for these trends, as well as other correlations and indicators.
• Develop statistical data resources to assist in proactive and targeted investigations, preventative enforcement, and education, identify crime patterns, trends, and criminal organizations, and identify known and repeat offenders.
• Recognize and identify conditions, trends, and patterns in area of specialization.
• Create clearly written and effective reports and bulletins and other analytical products.
• Monitor local, regional, and national crime trends. Forecast criminal trends based on computer analyses of current and past criminal activity.
• Attend regional meetings of law enforcement personnel and other conferences to share information on crime series, patterns, new methodologies, and developing tools.
• Act as liaison between local, state, tribal, or federal agencies and groups.
• Collect and organize criminal information from all available resources including the National Incident‑Based Reporting System (NIBRS), field interview reports, intelligence sources, other agencies, and media. Crime bulletins: review of crime reports and supplements, informational surveys, and retrieval of crime information to study and analyze past and existing crime series patterns and trends.
• Analyze known offenders' MO's and establish timelines to perform suspect / crime correlation to provide suspect leads and targets for surveillance or directed patrol.
• Foster positive employee relations and employee morale on a city‑wide basis.
• Oversee the website administration for investigative tools…