• ACCURATE & TIMELY INTELLIGENCE – Effective crime-fighting requires accurate and timely intelligence.  Officers at all levels of the police department must understand when (time of day, day of week, etc.) various types of crime have been committed as well as how, where, and by whom they have been committed.
      
• EFFECTIVE TACTICS - Having collated, analyzed and mapped this crime intelligence, the supervisors must develop effective tactics for dealing with the problems it reveals.  In order to bring about permanent change in crime conditions, these tactics must be comprehensive, flexible, and adaptable to changing trends.  They must involve the cooperation of other law enforcement agencies when needed, such as the district attorney’s office, probation services, other local law enforcement, our citizens, as well as the FBI, DEA, and ATF
      
• RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF PERSONNEL & RESOURCES – Once a tactical plan has been developed the deployment of personnel and resources must be rapid and focused.  To be effective, the response to a crime or quality of life problem demands that patrol officers coordinate their resources and expertise and act with a sense of urgency.
      
• RELENTLESS FOLLOW-UP & ASSESSMENT – All action must be relentlessly followed-up and assessed to ensure that the desired results has been achieved.  This is the only way of ensuring that recurring or similar problems are dealt with effectively in the future.

   COMPSTAT has been shown throughout the United States to work in all size agencies, from the large agencies to the ones with two or three officers.  It is a complete shift in paradigms (a complete change of thinking or a complete different approach to a problem or issue), each member of the police department is an important facet for this program to work.

   As of now our department has phased into operation the Community Oriented Policing philosophy and this has done us good; however, it is difficult to supervise, has a little accountability, and is very difficult to measure the success.

   COMPSTAT is basically an application of the Broken Windows theory, aided by crime analysis, and using the SARA model (Scan, Analyze, Respond, and Assess).  COMPSTAT is not a crime solving program, but a management process.  It is a process of identifying problems and measuring the results of the problem solving efforts.  Officers and middle managers hold the key to this process. 

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   The police department, through computer programs and detailed police reporting will process statistics on all crimes within the municipality.  Included in this process will be traffic problems, crash areas, the time officer’s spend doing community relations programs, the time an officer works on specialized enforcement (seatbelt details, speed enforcement, etc.), routine patrol, drug investigations, quality of life calls, and any other crime information that is pertinent.

   Mid-level managers (sergeants) will be responsible for assisting in the implementation of COMPSTAT.  It will be the sergeants who will see that officers out on patrol are submitting detailed information and that detailed approved reports are being submitted to be processed by staff members.

Police supervisors are encouraged to be creative with their officers.  If the plan requires saturation of an area, and we have extra personnel, go for it.  If it calls for plainclothes, or bike patrols, or a walking beat, go for it.

   The ultimate action of COMPSTAT is to bring the crime rate down.  That’s really what were pushing for, and with your help and ideas, this can be accomplished.  Issues and problems that come up are handed with professional responsibility, and accountability, with the tactical use of limited resources.

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WARWICK TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT

STATISTICAL INFORMATION

2008
(updated 5/6/2009)

CRIME INFORMATION
Total Calls for Service (Department generated)	1,719
Total Calls for Service (Count Event#)	6,957
Alarm Calls	214
Domestic Violence Cases	91

TRAFFIC INVESTIGATION  & ACCIDENT INFORMATION
Fatal Accidents	1
Reportable Accidents	131
Injury Accidents	62
Vehicle Towed	142
Non-Reportable Accidents	144
Total Accidents	275
Traffic Citations Issued	1,154
Traffic Warnings Issued	348

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Part 1 crimes consist of the eight major crimes of Murder, Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Theft, Motor Vehicle Theft and Arson.  All other criminal offenses, including summary offenses are considered as Part 2 crimes according to the Federal Uniform Crime Reporting System (UCR).
    

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Police departments clear a crime when they actually arrest and charge a person or persons for committing a crime, or when for some exceptional reason, they can positively identify a person who has committed a crime but do not actually charge this person with this crime.  Examples of exceptional clearances of crimes would be if the suspect who committed the crime has now been arrested in another state and the extradition of this person would serve no further purpose, or if the person who had committed this crime is now deceased.

CRIME FACTORS:

1. Population Density

2. Composition of Population

• Number of Youth
• Number of Elderly

3. Economic conditions

• Median Income
• Job Availability

4. Cultural Conditions

• Education
• Religious
• Recreational

5. Family Conditions

6. Law Enforcement Strength

DEPARTMENT U.C.R. STATISTICS