Interactive Offender Profiling System

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The 8th International Investigative Psychology
Conference - Dec 2005
Interactive Offender Profiling System (IOPS) ..
helping police with their enquiries ?
Interactive Offender Profiling System (IOPS)
Ian Oldfield Metropolitan Police Service (New
Scotland Yard)
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Why build a system like IOPS?

• Already have key systems
• Crime Recording Command and Control Systems
• Custody Systems
• Stop and Search Records System
• Criminal Intelligence System

• Systems currently do not deliver
• Direct geographical point-data display (Crime /
  Incident locations)
• Mapped locations of offenders activity space /
  anchor points
• Behavioural / Feature Analysis
• Geographical Profiling
• Intuitive / Bespoke Analytical Processes

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Ways that IOPS will support business

• Geocode all data including crime, offender,
  stops, arrests, etc
• Help build crime series through behavioural
  links
• Compare detected cases with undetected offences
• Develop a priority search area with Dragnet
  (geographical profiling)
• Select offender in priority area with similar
  criminal history
• Enable analysis of linked series in relation to
  offenders
• Inform TIC process
• Identify associate linkage
• Increase Detection Rate
• Create opportunities for early intervention

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Challenges to implementation
Strengths
Weaknesses
GIS Interface Familiar Datasets New ways of
viewing data
Unproven Increased Training Unlinked to legacy
I.T.
Difficult Integration Competing
Projects Priorities Change
Improved detection rate Data Improvement Early
intervention
Opportunities
Threats
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Summary