Crime Analyst

City of Myrtle Beach•Sc, SC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of this classification is to perform skilled work compiling and analyzing statistical data to map potential criminal activity and to create visual presentations such as spreadsheets, maps, and graphs. This position is responsible for researching and analyzing complex law enforcement data; identification and interpretation of criminal activity, patterns, and trends; forecasting staffing and deployment needs; recommending improvements in program operations; processing information requests using manual and automated indexes, in-house files, and resource persons; and utilizing personal initiative, logic, and creativity to develop effective, user oriented, and analytical information services and products.

Requirements

One (1) year of work experience in law enforcement, data analysis, research methods, statistics, or a related analytical field.
Must possess and maintain a valid South Carolina driver’s license.

Nice To Haves

Graduate of an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice, Criminology, Public Administration, Computer Science, Sociology, Political Science, or a closely related field.
May substitute a degree for an equivalent number of years of related experience.
Experience with software programs used to design and generate reports from various data sources (i.e., Power BI, Crystal Reports, SQL, Access, ArcMap or similar GIS software, etc.).

Responsibilities

Collects and organizes criminal information from all available sources, including the Uniform Crime Reporting system, field interviews, intelligence information, other agencies, media, review of crime reports and supplements, informational surveys, and retrieval of crime information stored in case and assigned data files.
Utilizes software to plot Part I crimes and other offenses or incidents as requested.
Provides administrative, demographic, geographic, intelligence, operational, statistical, and tactical analysis of data, including criminal information, traffic accidents, and arrests.
Identifies modus operandi and assists in locating possible suspects for crimes.
Monitors local, regional, and national trends; identifies significant crime patterns; makes comparisons with previous time periods, other jurisdictions, and national averages for use in developing tactics, strategies, and long-range plans; and informs the chain of command of unusual crime trends.
Processes routine and special requests from departmental and City personnel, other agencies, the media, and citizens, providing correspondence and statistical summaries and reports relating to crime analysis.
Coordinates information processing and analytical activities with other staff members to accomplish specific work assignments, refine procedures of crime analysis, and produce useful information products.
Constructs pictorial and graphic representations of incident data; prepares and presents reports, summaries, charts, graphs, tables, and other methods of relating comparative information or supporting documentation for presentation of statistics.
Provides regular reports of operational activities for departmental use and State, Federal, and accreditation requirements.
Reviews and comments on reports, memoranda, general orders, standard operating procedures, and similar materials pertaining to crime analysis.
Prepares and distributes crime bulletins, briefings, alerts and other reports as needed.
Prepares periodic statistical reports.
Assists in preparing presentations for internal and external use.
Attends necessary schools, seminars, or in-service training to update knowledge in the area of crime analysis.
Meets and exchanges information with representatives of professional associations, other agencies, and comparable departments in other jurisdictions regarding crime analysis.
Acts as a liaison to other law enforcement agencies in the area.
Collects intelligence from a variety of sources to create usable and actionable intelligence information, including social media and open-source intelligence.
Offers analytical, investigative, and/or coordination assistance during major case investigations, such as lead tracking, link construction and analysis, as well as crime and cell phone record mapping.
Establishes offender and location workups for investigative purposes; identifies offenders who may require additional intelligence gathering.
Analyzes crime gun intelligence to assist in identifying violent offenders and/or members of violent gangs and criminal organizations who are involved in shootings, violent criminal activity, or firearms trafficking, which ATF and/or local and state agencies may investigate.
Triages and analyzes all NIBIN leads, tracks all NIBIN leads, referrals, and results, and reports success stories.
Compiles all data necessary to provide the NIBIN investigator and ATF with actionable law enforcement investigative leads, including crime gun identification and crime gun tracing.
Tracks stolen and recovered firearms to monitor for patterns and/or repeat offenders and locations.
May assist in preparing predictive reports based on historical crime data.
May participate in special projects, staff studies, or programs as assigned to provide technical assistance.
Performs other related duties as required, requested, and assigned.