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CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT
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LEARNING MODULE
FOR
LEA 314: LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS AND PLANNING
WITH CRIME MAPPING
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WEEK 17 & 18
COURSE OUTLINE
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COURSE CODE : LEA 314
TITLE : Law Enforcement Operations and Planning with Crime
Mapping
TARGET POPULATION : Third year Criminology Students
INSTRUCTOR : MR. CARLO JONE V. BALISI, RCrim
Overview:
The course is designed to teach students the fundamental concepts of
planning as a leadership role and the operations of selected Law Enforcement
and Public Safety Agencies and their respective legal mandates and limitations
under existing laws. The Crime Mapping and its relations to police operations.
General Objective:
At the end of the course, the learner shall be able to:
To understand the Concept of Police Operational Planning.
To Familiarize the Types of Plans.
To Discuss what is Disaster Management Team.
To Determine Consideration in Police Planning.
To Comprehend what is Crime Mapping.
Instruction to the Learner
Each chapter in this module contains a major lesson involving the
Principles of Planning, Elements of Planning, Types of Plans, Classification of
Plan, and the Police/Law Enforcement Plans, Steps in Police Planning and
Operations, Field Operation, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP’s), Disaster
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Management Team and Historical Development of Crime Mapping, Theories of
Crime, Types of Crime Mapping and Crime Analysis. The units are characterized
by continuity, and are arranged in such a manner that the present unit is related
to the next unit. For this reason, you are advised to read this module. After each
unit, there are exercises to be given.
GETTING STARTED:
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Crime Analysis Mapping
“Crime mapping” is a term that has been used for the past few
years to refer to research analysis using GIS in a law enforcement
setting. In this report, the term crime analysis mapping is used to
describe this process because using a GIS to analyze crime is not just
the act of placing incidents on a map but also of analysis. Consequently,
“crime analysis mapping” is:
The process of using a geographic information system in
combination with crime analysis techniques to focus on the spatial
context of criminal and other law enforcement activity.
GIS Components
The following is a description of the major components of a GIS,
which include data representation, data features, visualization, scale, and
querying.
Data representation
Real world data are represented by one of four features in a GIS.
They include point, line, polygon, and image features.
Point feature
A point feature is a discrete location that is usually depicted by a symbol
or label.
A point feature in the geographic information system is analogous to a pin
placed on a paper wall map. Different symbols are used to depict the
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location of crimes, motor vehicle accidents, traffic signs, buildings, beat
stations, and cell phone towers. The following map shows a robbery point
map.
Line feature
A line feature is a geographic feature that can be represented by a line or
set of lines.
The following map shows how different types of geographic features
such as railways, streets, and rivers can be represented by a line in a
GIS. Additional examples are streams, streets, power lines, bus routes,
student pathways, and lines depicting the distance from a stolen to a
recovered vehicle.
Polygon feature
A polygon feature is a multisided figure represented by a closed set of
lines.
In the following map, the largest blue polygon represents the city
boundary, the green are census tracks, and the black are census block
groups. Other examples of polygon features used in law enforcement
would be patrol areas, beats, neighborhoods, or jurisdictions. Polygon
features can represent areas as large as continents and as small as
buildings.
Image feature
An image feature is a vertical photo taken from a satellite or a
plane that is digitized and placed within the geographic information
system coordinate system so that there are -x and -y coordinates
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associated with it.
Data of geographic features
Each type of feature has “attributes” or a table of data that
describe it. All the attributes for three of the four types of features (point,
line, and polygon) are stored in a GIS as a data table (Note that a digital
orthophotograph has an –x and –y coordinate but does not have an
associated data table worthy of analysis). The ability to view, query,
relate, and manipulate data behind these features is the true power of a
GIS. A manual pin map and a computer map depict points, lines, and
polygons but do not have data associated with the features and are not
easily manipulated. In a GIS, simply clicking on a point, line, or polygon
can produce the data table associated with that particularfeature.
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