Real-Time Connection: Oceanside PD Crime Data Mapping
Collaborating with the community you serve is more important for law enforcement agencies than ever. During this open interactive session you’ll learn how Oceanside Police Department has leveraged technology to enhance their ability to fight crime and improve their relationship with the people they serve.
Police1 – California PD launches crime-mapping tool to create transparency and prevent crime
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — In an effort to increase transparency and awareness in the community, the Oceanside (Calif.) Police Department launched a crime-mapping tool to help prevent crime and reduce fear. The department is using FirstWatch, which shows calls for service over the previous 12 to 48 hours, Fox5SanDiego.com reported.
Lexipol Webinar – Serving Amid Chaos: Taking Care of Your Community, Your Colleagues & Yourself
The events of the past several months have shaken the core of law enforcement, leaving many officers questioning their roles and even their career choice. The main threats facing officers used to be violent criminals, roadway operations and personal health risks. Today, the public, the media, bosses, elected officials and even family and friends can seem to pose a threat. How do you deal with the deluge of opinion, anger and confusion and still serve your mission? Law enforcement officers can’t...
Lexipol Webinar – Serving Amid Chaos: Taking Care of Your Community, Your Colleagues & Yourself
Join Lexipol for an exclusive presentation featuring resiliency and leadership strategies from the front lines of law enforcement, clinical psychology and neuroscience. This webinar is intended for rookies all the way up to command staff.
COVID-19 Guidance Resources for Law Enforcement Personnel
There is a lot of available information for Health Care Workers and EMS, but not very much for Law Enforcement who have several roles as part of their work that puts them at increased risk for being infected by COVID-19. This document raises the awareness of that risk and offers a clearinghouse of resources specifically for Law Enforcement, First Responders/Public Safety.
The Prepared Warrior Podcast: Policing in a Pandemic | Mike Taigman
Before beginning a shift for the day, what is something those working in law enforcement can do to prepare themselves, knowing they are risking exposure to COVID-19? For those working in a leadership role, what is important for them to keep in mind? This pandemic has the potential to drag on for a long time, what are the possible effects of long-term heightened stress on first responders? Can you explain the concept of crisis rehearsal and how that could be beneficial for law...
How biosurveillance turns opioids-related data into actionable intelligence
PoliceOne article "How biosurveillance turns opioids-related data into actionable intelligence" by By Rob Lawrence, P1 Contributor. See how a customer agency, in Richmond, Virginia, is utilizing the FirstWatch system and turning real-time activity data into actionable intelligence. Of note, the Richmond Ambulance Authority was the first commercial user of the FirstWatch system.
Heat Stress & Illness for First Responders
Resources and links for first responders
Law Officer: Crime in Real Time
Using CAD data for crime analysis by Steve Walter
FirstWatch Solutions Provide Actionable Information for Oceanside Police
Law enforcement agencies are faced with the significant challenge of making sense of mountains of crime data. FirstWatch, headquartered in Encinitas, Calif., helps the Oceanside Police Department by turning this raw data into valuable, actionable information available to their law enforcement teams and other authorized stakeholder groups in real time.
Helping Data Work for You
"FirstWatch significantly expedites the process. Departments using FirstWatch can look at and act on data, essentially in real-time, and can map trends and set up alerts based on crime category or location."
SNOPAC 911 Communications Center on Watch
To ensure that police, fire and emergency medical services in Snohomish County have their fingers on the pulse of the community, the SNOPAC 9-1-1 has deployed FirstWatch to monitor in real-time the roughly 1,500 calls they dispatch each day (more than 600,000 calls in 2013).
Conventional Wisdom: The Democratic and Republican National Conventions require lots of planning – and some state-of-the-art technology
Download PDF (Best Practices in Emergency Services, February 2013)FirstWatch was on-hand at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to monitor health-related threats and keep attendees safe.
Innovation: FirstWatch Software Plots Hidden Data Trends
Download PDF (San Diego Business Journal, Volume 34, Number 7) The San Diego Business Journal features FirstWatch for Innovation in Technology: Safety, Fire, Disease Among Uses for Incident Tracking.
High Anxiety: National Security Events Take Collaboration, Planning
The Democratic and Republican National Conventions are two of the United States’ most important and highest stakes gatherings. As thousands of elected officials, delegates, and media representatives descended on the respective host cities, public health and safety officials from the local, state, and federal levels worked with FirstWatch to prepare for threats—manmade or natural—that could disrupt the events.
Crime in Real-Time: Using CAD Data for Crime Analysis
Download PDF (Law Officer, April 2012)FirstWatch used to help Oceanside Police recover Olympic Gold Medal
High Stakes
Download PDF (Homeland Security Today, June 2005)
