Crime Analyst

Crime Analyst

Police Department

Salary: $23.33 - $38.49 Hourly / $48,526.40 - $80,059.20 Annually

FLSA Position Class:
Non-Exempt

Work Schedule:

8-5 Mon-Fri

Posting Closing Date:
December 29, 2025

This position is responsible for collecting, categorizing, analyzing, and disseminating timely and accurate information that describes crime patterns, crime trends, and potential suspects; responsible for analyzing crime and police incident patterns and trends to aid in the prevention, suppression, and resolution of criminal activity.

NOTE:

Employee may be required to respond to a disaster, either natural or man‑made, to serve the citizens of Statesville and meet the needs of the organization, which may result in the assignment of other duties and take precedence over duties described in this job description. This job description is not intended to be all‑inclusive.

• Performs a variety of strategic, tactical, and administrative duties relating to the systematic process of collecting, categorizing, analyzing, and disseminating timely, accurate, and useful information that describes crime patterns, crime trends, and potential suspects.
• Provides information, data, and statistics to police, city administration, various committees, and City Council for decision‑making purposes as it relates to crime; presents analysis and statistics in various internal and external forums.
• Provides maintenance and upgrades to the GIS portion of the Tyler Public Safety System; performs regular updates of addresses, buildings, police beats, and city limit changes.
• Develops statistical data resources to assist in proactive and targeted investigations, preventative enforcement and education, identification of theft patterns, trends, criminal organizations, and identification of known and repeat offenders.
• Informs the department on how crime analysis products should be used to combat crime.
• Works with senior command staff to streamline processes.
• Creates a weekly report with information from crime analysts and police personnel, then presents the report to command staff.
• Prepares a variety of reports such as crime information and patrol bulletins, monthly and quarterly activity summaries, departmental annual reports, and specific statistical/research reports.
• Conducts statistical and strategic analysis, which includes preparing monthly, quarterly, annual, and on‑request reports.
• Prepares a variety of mapping products using ESRI Arc Pro, the Crime Analysis Toolbar, and ArcGIS Online; updates and maintains the Statesville Police Department Hub Page.
• Collects and organizes criminal information from all available resources, including the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system, the National Incident‑Based System (NIBRS), field interview reports, intelligence sources, other agencies, media, crime bulletins, review crime reports and supplements, informational surveys, and retrieval of crime information to study and analyze past and existing crime series, patterns, and trends.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Associate degree in criminal justice, statistics, geographic information systems (GIS), forensic science, computer forensics, or related field.

• Possession of a valid North Carolina driver’s license, or any valid driver’s license with ability to obtain a North Carolina driver’s license within 60 days of establishing a permanent residence in North Carolina.

• Comprehensive knowledge of crime analysis applications to include various formulas, theories, and practices.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles, methods, and theory of GIS and relational databases and how they apply to crime analysis.
• Comprehensive knowledge of various software programs used in the department.
• General knowledge of the pertinent local, state, and federal laws, codes, and regulations pertaining to open records and the dissemination of information.
• General knowledge of the methods and techniques used to present statistical data, prepare intelligence reports, link charts, association matrices, criminal intelligence information bulletins, reports, and graphics.
• Ability to use statistical formulas to make crime predictions and…