Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) Agency Implementation Plan DDACTS Workshop Agency Name: Participants: City & State: Chief Executive: DATE: Agency Profile 1. Please provide a brief description of your agency and its structure. Be sure to consider: Size of jurisdiction Nature of jurisdiction Agency size Sworn and civilian personnel Primary mission Organizational structure Responsibilities of traffic unit vs. patrol units in traffic enforcement and crash response Communication and coordination among units Examples: a highly-commercial city of 45,000 residents south of Seattle. The police department has 76 “Cold Bay, Washington is sworn officers and 18 civilian personnel, including a full-time crime analyst. We provide general police services to our citizens. The highly-trafficked routes between Seattle and Tacoma ensure that we respond to a lot of traffic accidents, and we have a specialized traffic division tasked with enforcing hot spots, although all officers take crash reports. The traffic to be division’s activities tend based more on citizen complaints than crash hot spots identified by data.” 2. Please identify a critical public safety issue(s) within your jurisdiction to which you will apply the DDACTS model, utilizing the DDACTS Guiding Principles. Be sure to consider: Crashes Property crime Violent crime Societal crime Disorder Quality of life Repeat call locations Long-term problems Examples: major traffic artery between Seattle and Tacoma with several serious-injury “Route 135 – accident intersections” of thefts from vehicles in “Citywide epidemic commercial parking lots” major commercial district on 135 with lots of robbery, vagrancy, and general “City Square – disorder”
Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) Agency Implementation Plan Agency Name: DDACTS Workshop Participants: City & State: Chief Executive: DATE: Agency Profile 1. Please provide a brief description of your agency and its structure. Be sure to consider: Size of jurisdiction Nature of jurisdiction Agency size Sworn and civilian personnel Primary mission Organizational structure Responsibilities of traffic unit vs. patrol units in traffic enforcement and crash response Communication and coordination among units Examples: “Cold Bay, Washington is a highly-commercial city of 45,000 residents south of Seattle. The police department has 76 sworn officers and 18 civilian personnel, including a full-time crime analyst. We provide general police services to our citizens. The highly-trafficked routes between Seattle and Tacoma ensure that we respond to a lot of traffic accidents, and we have a specialized traffic division tasked with enforcing hot spots, although all officers take crash reports. The traffic division’s activities tend to be based more on citizen complaints than crash hot spots identified by data.” 2. Please identify a critical public safety issue(s) within your jurisdiction to which you will apply the DDACTS model, utilizing the DDACTS Guiding Principles. Be sure to consider: Crashes Property crime Violent crime Societal crime Disorder Quality of life Repeat call locations Long-term problems Examples: “Route 135 – major traffic artery between Seattle and Tacoma with several serious-injury accident intersections” “Citywide epidemic of thefts from vehicles in commercial parking lots” “City Square – major commercial district on 135 with lots of robbery, vagrancy, and general disorder”