Dumas Police Department launches community crime map

DUMAS, Texas (KFDA) – The Dumas Police Department has introduced a community crime map.

The map is in partnership with LexisNexis® and it lets in regulation enforcement to proportion crime information with the general public.

“The community crime map is a tool that starts a conversation, and that conversation starts really good communication between our community members and the police department. And that is the basis, that’s the foundation of community oriented policing, which is what we want to have here in the city of Dumas,” mentioned Rick Pippins, leader of police, City of Dumas.

It makes use of elementary mapping, dashboards and analytics to turn what is occurring all the way through town, corresponding to robbery and attack.

Pippins says the analytics can lend a hand the dep. reply extra successfully.

“We can get an idea of not only where they’re taking place, but when they’re taking place, what day of the weeks they are more likely to take place, and it really helps us as managers to be able to allocate resources at a much more efficient manner,” mentioned Pippins.

He additionally says he isn’t happy with the extent of illegal activity in Dumas.

“Whether it is connected to drug use and drug abuse or whether it’s assault of offenses, we are not satisfied with the levels that crime is at and it’s our job to see to it that it’s greatly reduced. Our goal is to become one of the safest cities of any size in the state of Texas and so this is one more tool that we can use to help us reach our goal of making the city of Dumas one of the safest cities in the state,” mentioned Pippins.

He says it is a not unusual instrument utilized in North Texas and to his wisdom the one departments the usage of this map within the Panhandle are Dumas, Amarillo and Clovis.

The community crime map is unfastened to the general public to make use of and is being supplied via town.

“From a taxpayer’s standpoint this is an extremely low cost, even for the city of Dumas and then in the grand scheme of things it is a very, very small amount,” mentioned Pippins.

If you’d love to view the map, click on here.

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