UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science

Parallel sessions 1A and 1B, and Workshop 1
1A. Crime mapping in operational and investigative policing [Chancellors Hall]

• The evolvement of analysing robbery offences within West Midlands Police - Alice O'Neill, West Midlands Police
• A GIS-based artificial intelligence clustering algorithm to detect auto-theft recovery patterns - Dr K. Michael Reynolds, Chief Ernest Scott, Dr Ron Eaglin, Paul Pan and Dr Olcay Kursun, University of Central Florida and Project DRAGON
• The mapping of forensic data - Bob Milne and Christine Leist, Metropolitan Police

1B. Profiling neighbourhoods [Beveridge Hall]

• Using a composite spatial index of multi-agency information to assess partnership priorities - Steven Rose, Birmingham Community Safety Partnership
• A data driven approach to neighbourhood policing - David I. Ashby, University College London
• The Thames Gateway Crime and Design Project - Liane Hartley & Paul Morrissey, Thames Gateway London Partnership

Question Time - Is crime mapping making a difference? [Beveridge Hall]

• Chair: Nick Ross, Journalist and Chair of the Jill Dando Institute Board

Panel

• David Truscott - Head of Partnership and Performance Support Unit, Home Office
• Kate Pearce - National Centre for Policing Excellence
• Sue Andrews - Bromley Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership
• Richard Collier - Police Information and Technology Organisation
• Catherine Archer - Executive Director, West Yorkshire Police Authority
• Gloria Laycock - Director, Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, UCL

Parallel session 3A and 3B, and Workshop 3 [Beveridge Hall]
3A Where will the offender strike next?

• Movement-based forecasting of serial crime events - Sean Bair, National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center, Crime Mapping and Analysis Program (CMAP), USA
• Predicting next event locations in a crime series using advanced spatial prediction methods - Derek J Paulsen, Eastern Kentucky University
• The use of opportunity structures in geographic offender profiling - Wim Bernasco, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement

3B Reassuring the public [Chancellor's Hall]

• Partnership GIS delivering public reassurance and liveability through Civic Renewal - Mark Kenwood, Birmingham Community Safety Partnership
• Targeting resources using geodemographic profiling - Richard Scott, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary
• CADDIE - data experience - Tim Hemsley, Sussex Crime and Disorder Partnerships

Workshop 3 : How to get the most out of geographic information [Room 104]

Facilitators Andy Brumwell (West Midlands Police) and Mark Patrick (ESRI UK)

This workshop, led by the Association for Geographic Information, will demonstrate and explore how crime mapping can make best use of multi-agency, Census, Neighbourhood Statistics, and Ordnance Survey data.

Parallel Sessions 4A and 4B
4A Crime mapping for communities [Beveridge Hall]

• Community Alert: Internet mapping and reporting system for anti-social behaviour - Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, Jim Murray, Sonja Curtis and Professor John Adams, University College London
• Mapping the fear of crime: a web based GIS solution to capturing 'fuzzy' geography - Tim Waters and Andrew Evans, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and the University of Leeds

4B Automating crime mapping tasks with technology [Chancellor's Hall]

• Using internal mapping websites to provide non-emergency support in Surrey Police - Thomas Rodger, Surrey Police
• Implementing partnership business activity performance using adaptive crime mapping - Vijay Anam, Thames Valley Police

Workshop 4: Taking forward crime mapping and analysis in police forces and CDRPs [Room 104]

Facilitators Mark Bangs and Ruth Weir (Local Area Analysis Team, Home Office)

This workshop, led by the Home Office, will report back on its findings from its national survey of police and CDRP use of GIS and crime analysis. Working with workshop delegates it will help to identify the principle requirements for developing crime mapping and analysis.

5th Plenary Session [Beveridge Hall]
Local to National: a year on

Themes

• Organisational and management challenges of crime mapping
• Crime mapping and its role in the National Intelligence Model
• Crime mapping and partnership service delivery

Speakers

• Pictures for Practice? Challenges and Vision for Analysis in Policing - Dr Nina Cope, Metropolitan Police
• Greater Manchester Against Crime (GMAC): a model for partnership working based on analysis and GIS - David Flitcroft, Partnership Unit, Greater Manchester Police
• Mapping Data: Supporting an Operational Doctrine - Assistant Chief Constable Nick Tofiluk, West Midlands Police

POSTERS

• Mapping Crime to Target Resources: A Waterway Perspective - Zoe Wright and Jonathan Marshall, British Waterways
• The Future of Crime Mapping at West-Midlands Police - Paul Butterfield, West Midlands Police
• Playing Catch-Up: Easy (and cheap) ways for improving crime spatial analysis within a large police organisation - Timothy Mashford, Victoria Police, Austrailia
• Burglary reduction opportunities in a New Deal for Communities Area - Alice O'Neill, West Midlands Police
• Jupiter in Lincolnshire's Burglary Dwelling Model - Pankhurst, A., Deville, J., Ashforth, P. and Purdy, N., The Research Unit, Lincolnshire Development
• The Role of Mapping in the Application Of National Intelligence Model to Reassurance Policing - Ajoke Falase and Nizete Amorim, London Borough of Bexley
• Strathclyde Police Custom Crime Analysis Tools for ArcMap - Joe Carragher and Gordon Tyler, Strathclyde Police
• Identifying Crime Hotspots Using a Neighbourhood Classification - Peter Shepherd, John Stillwell and Graham Clarke, University of Leeds
• Mapping socio-demographic risk factors for domestic violence in Devon - Karen Vincent, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary