Crime & Intelligence Analyst

About the position

Incumbents in this classification conduct a variety of crime intelligence, tactical, administrative and statistical analyses in support of Police Department activities. A Crime & Intelligence Analyst I collects and analyzes data related to crime patterns, crime trends, traffic statistics and human/criminal network intelligence; assists with administering crime analysis databases and the report management system; assists in monitoring and researching known subjects within the city; assists with creating local, state, and federal statistics for City-wide and in-house reporting requirements; ensures work quality and adherence to established policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Monitors, searches, and conducts background research of social media posts and open sources of information based on keywords, critical events, and subjects of interest.
• Captures posts, photos, and videos of interest.
• Collect, collate, and analyze a variety of criminal, statistical, intelligence, economic, geographic, and open source information in support of Department activities.
• Utilize diverse sources of information, including calls for service, crime, census, demographic, and open source data.
• Convert large amounts of data into actionable intelligence.
• Provide intelligence to assist in identifying crime problems.
• Forecast criminal trends based on analyses of current and past criminal activity.
• Develop and test crime prediction and resource allocation statistical models.
• Assist in advising sworn staff of areas of high crime probability.
• Analyze known offenders, MOs, and timelines to perform suspect/crime correlation.
• Develop and prepare charts, graphs, maps, reports, bulletins and related materials.
• Present analysis to police administrators and City officials.
• Make written and oral presentations using maps, charts and graphs.
• Establish and maintain effective communication and working relationships with sworn personnel, city employees, representatives of other agencies, the media and the general public.
• Answer inquiries from the public, businesses, community groups and websites regarding crime activity, trends and patterns.
• Proactively monitor local, regional and national crime trends.
• Maintains strict confidentiality of information.
• Works in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple tasks and requests simultaneously.
• Analyzes and interprets large amounts of statistical data.
• Collects, evaluates and conducts a detailed analysis of intelligence.
• Develops link analysis, time/temporal analysis, social media analysis, criminal threat analysis.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual statistical reports for management.
• Communicates trend, suspect characteristic and intelligence data to operational components of the police department.
• Provides information to appropriate law enforcement partners.
• Develops visual presentations such as event flow analysis illustrations and activity flow charts.
• Develops, uses and/or maintains databases using various software applications.
• Contacts governmental agencies to gather criminal statistical data.
• Develops and maintains working relationships with area agency partners.
• Testifies in court regarding criminal activity data.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Crime Analysis, Mathematics/Statistics, Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Psychology, Criminal Justice, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
• Two years of experience building databases; interpreting and making inferences from statistical information; collecting, organizing, and summarizing data.
• Experience analyzing and distilling large amounts of information from social networking profiles, online forums, and articles.
• Experience working in Microsoft Office and Google Suites.
• Experience with popular social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok.

Nice-to-haves

• Good-standing membership of the International Association of Crime Analysts/IACA.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain eAgent certifications.

Benefits

• Salary range: $54,005 - $59,064 annually.
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm.