Wednesday May 5, 2010

The Napa Police Department now subscribes to a web-based crime mapping program called Crime Reports. Crime Reports automatically pulls completed crime reports once a day from  the Napa Police Department records management system and publishes the crimes to a Google map application. Crime Reports shows the incidents on the maps by markers. Clicking on an incident marker provides more details about the crime. Crime types can be filtered by clicking on crime types and choosing the crimes to show on the map. Sex Offender’s name, sex, residence photos and other information can be added to the map. To stay informed about crime, residents may register for free email alerts about specific categories of crime and receive email alerts for a number of different addresses. An iPhone application can be downloaded as well. Crime Reports has an analytics view that will extend the understanding of local crimes. Interactive charts and graphs track total crime over time and by percentage.