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Creating neighbourhood profiles at Hampshire Constabulary
MapInfo has confirmed the completion of its newly awarded contract with Hampshire Constabulary to create neighbourhood profiles for the 144 neighbourhoods in the Hampshire area.
In recognition that neighbourhood profiling plays a critical role in delivering a framework to measure and manage the performance of local agencies, Hampshire Constabulary engaged the services of MapInfo during March of this year to create individual reports and maps for each of their neighbourhoods. The focus is on demographic variables and map information.
Neighbourhood profiles create reference information, which can be used to formulate plans to address specific issues to target resources and to measure the effect of crime reduction initiatives within individual neighbourhoods. More over, MapInfo location intelligence services were selected in favour of CACI and Experian to deliver key neighbourhood data in a single, consistent format that was easy to share with local agencies and provided key statistics on local neighbourhoods to support policy and planning activities.
The demographic data variables were selected from the 2001 Census, the statistics were supported by maps representing background context data, for example roads, rivers, settlements etc, overlaid with labelled neighbourhood boundaries and other data.
Within two weeks, the deliverables were provided in electronic format for printing and distribution by Hampshire Constabulary and the many local agencies in the area.
Commenting, Patrick Holdaway, Inspector, Citizen Focus, Community Safety Department, Hampshire Constabulary said, “We are very pleased with MapInfo’s approach and expertise in this field. Their inherent understanding of analytics, visualisations and the need for ease of use, combined to deliver the exact solution we were looking for. This capability will make a significant impact on our crime reduction planning and swifter inroads toward safer neighbourhoods in Hampshire.”
