Crime Analyst

JOB DESCRIPTION

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.

Crime Analyst

The purpose of this classification is to perform skilled work compiling and analyzing statistical data to map potential criminal activity and to create visual presentations such as spreadsheets, maps, and graphs. This position is responsible for researching and analyzing complex law enforcement data; identification and interpretation of criminal activity, patterns, and trends; forecasting staffing and deployment needs; recommending improvements in program operations;

processing information requests using manual and automated indexes, in-house files, and resource persons; and utilizing personal initiative, logic, and creativity to develop effective, user oriented, and analytical information services and products.

The following duties are normal for this position. One analyst is assigned to Support Services, and the other to Investigations. The duties may cross over as needed. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

Analyst assigned to Support Services:

• Collects and organizes criminal information from all available sources, including the Uniform Crime Reporting system, field interviews, intelligence information, other agencies, media, review of crime reports and supplements, informational surveys, and retrieval of crime information stored in case and assigned data files.
• Utilizes software to plot Part I crimes and other offenses or incidents as requested.
• Provides administrative, demographic, geographic, intelligence, operational, statistical, and tactical analysis of data, including criminal information, traffic accidents, and arrests.
• Identifies modus operandi and assists in locating possible suspects for crimes.
• Monitors local, regional, and national trends; identifies significant crime patterns; makes comparisons with previous time periods, other jurisdictions, and national averages for use in developing tactics, strategies, and long-range plans; and informs the chain of command of unusual crime trends.
• Processes routine and special requests from departmental and City personnel, other agencies, the media, and citizens, providing correspondence and statistical summaries and reports relating to crime analysis.
• Coordinates information processing and analytical activities with other staff members to accomplish specific work assignments, refine procedures of crime analysis, and produce useful information products.
• Constructs pictorial and graphic representations of incident data; prepares and presents reports, summaries, charts, graphs, tables, and other methods of relating comparative information or supporting documentation for presentation of statistics.
• Provides regular reports of operational activities for departmental use and State, Federal, and accreditation requirements.
• Reviews and comments on reports, memoranda, general orders, standard operating procedures, and similar materials pertaining to crime analysis.
• Prepares and distributes crime bulletins, briefings, alerts and other reports as needed.
• Prepares periodic statistical reports. Assists in preparing presentations for internal and external use.
• Attends necessary schools, seminars, or in-service training to update knowledge in the area of crime analysis.
• Meets and exchanges information with representatives of professional associations, other agencies, and comparable departments in other jurisdictions regarding crime analysis.

Analyst assigned to Investigations:

• Acts as a liaison to other law enforcement agencies in the area.
• Collects intelligence from a variety of sources to create usable and actionable intelligence information, including social media and open-source intelligence.
• Offers analytical, investigative, and/or…