PD Portal

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2016

The Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD) has primary responsibility to provide police service to the five western towns in Suffolk County; this includes more than 571 square miles and a population of more than 1.35 million county residents. This large geographical size creates obstacles to collaborative efforts and timely information sharing. As such, more than 325 detectives generate thousands of notifications to more than 2,390 sworn members of the department on a weekly basis. Efforts to improve communications between seven different precincts and five squads while streamlining the communication process were a priority of the SCPD in its attempt to pursue its intelligence-led policing methodology. The new SCPD Portal is a feature-rich program that enhances the police users’ ability to access timely police-related intelligence. The SCPD Portal is a stand-alone program that accesses more than a dozen SCPD databases in order to produce information that is automatically analyzed for trends and patterns and reported in a table format as well as on Google maps. Furthermore, investigators can easily distribute these intelligence reports all 2,390 sworn members from within the SCPD Portal. Lastly, each sworn member has the ability to easily manage these reports and all notifications from any department computer.