Law Enforcement Analyst

Job Description

Summary:

Research and collect data to monitor trends, patterns, and changes in society which impact quality and delivery of service to the community i.e., population, housing, technology, operating activities, incidence of disease or crime, and calls for service; collect and compile intelligence information to generate data for support in investigations; collect, categorize, analyze, prepare and disseminate information relative to actual or anticipated criminal and/or terrorist activity;

perform other duties as assigned.

Starting salary is $31.27 per hour/$65,041 annual. Full salary range for the position is $65,041 to $116,185. Law Enforcement Analyst position has opportunities for overtime and compensatory time.

Harford County Sheriff’s Office is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law.

Job Description:

Essential Functions:

Extract, collect, collate, and analyze crime, incident, and traffic data to disseminate intelligence products relating to criminal activity, crime trends, and patterns based on spatial analysis (dealing with geographic locations), temporal analysis (dealing with time frames), and modus operandi.

Monitor social media for potential criminal activity and/or threats to the community.

Utilize computer programs, databases, spreadsheets as well as other resources to analyze data and identify crime patterns, suspects, modus operandi, and other related descriptive information.

Research and analyze crime and disorder information gathered from various sources. Research crime reports and related data through analytical procedures to disclose patterns, trends, and/or evidence of criminal activity including crime pattern detection, suspect-crime correlations, target-suspect profiles, and crime forecasting; prepare stats, charts and maps for patrol, investigations, and command staff.

Prepare a variety of reports utilizing computer databases, electronic spreadsheets, desktop publishing, word processing, and statistical applications to analyze and present data related to criminal activities and organized criminal groups.

Stay abreast of current and emerging trends, practices, procedures, and issues in policing and crime analysis. Adapt, implement, and coordinate agency functions to ensure best practices.

Conduct research and analysis to develop, write, and disseminate a variety of analysis products including:
Link Charting, Event Charting, Commodity Flow Charting, Activity Charting, Financial Profiling, Frequency Charting, Data Correlation, Crime Mapping, Subject Work-ups, Intelligence Bulletins, Threat Assessments, Intelligence Assessments, Crime Pattern Analysis, Demographic Trend analysis, Social Media analysis, Business Profiling, Network Analysis, Time-Event Analysis, Telephone Toll Analysis, etc.

Prepare oral briefings, written reports, and/or supporting and illustrative narrative and statistical material in the form of charts, tables, graphs, maps and develop recommendations in a detailed factual format to be used by Command Staff and field supervisors in order to evaluate enforcement priorities and case development.

Collect and compile information and determine reliability and validity of the intelligence information to generate data for support in investigations;

Respond to requests from the public on crime statistics.

Review and analysis of Intelligence Bulletins and Briefs.

Keep supervisor and relevant others informed of issues in a timely…