MIDAS MultiAgency Information

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MIDASMulti-Agency Information Data Access
System
UNLOCKING INFORMATION SUPPORTING
COMMUNITIES
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The MIDAS Service

• A Partnership Service for Crime Disorder
  Practitioners and others
• MIDAS on-line service - makes available
  'knowledge products' derived from multiple
  sources of event / incident data using query
  tool via internet
• MIDAS off-line service - ad-hoc data supply,
  analysis and multi-layer mapping
• Products align to standard crime category
  groupings and ASB typologies
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System Manager Chris Rowland HCC
GIS Officer Kellie Blanchard HCC
Product/Analysis. Dev. Manager Catherine Haylock
HCC Located in County Hall, Hertford Email
midas_at_hertscc.gov.uk Web www.hertslink.org/m
idas
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The benefits of the MIDAS Service

• An answer to requirements of CDA 1998 (soon to be
  duty)
• A systematic collection tool across a range of
  agencies
• Direct and timely access to previously
  unavailable data
• Added value to data cleansing / matching
  products
• Standardised data for target / trend monitoring
  analysis
• On-line desktop user access plus ad-hoc tasking
• Reduced dependence for Partners on limited
  resources

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MIDAS benefits (cont.)
8. Multi-level user access - Public through to
Specialist 9. A new way of looking at
multi-agency issues 10. Multi-scale view from
County to Neighbourhood 11. Support for
LSP/LAAs/CDRPs and POP work 12. Addresses e-Gov
and Citizen Engagement Agendas 13. A tool for
creating CDRP based Strategic Assessments 14.
24/7 access wherever there is an internet
connection
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Key Messages

• The MIDAS database is
• Incident / event based with each incident / event
  having spatial and temporal components
• An information sharing hub enabling practitioners
  toaccess partner agency information
• Designed primarily for tactical / operational
  purposes
• The MIDAS database is not
• A case management system
• A performance / management system
• To be used for official statistical returns

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History of MIDAS

• 2003 Herts Info-Share Protocols signed
• 2004 - COG agreed need for Info-Hub to address
  CDA
• Project Board determined outline strategy -
  distinct from other systems - knowledge
  products
• Spring 2005 Invitation to Tender (ITT)
• July/August 2005 - Staff Recruited
• September 2005 - Sopra commenced development
• July 2006 new application and GIS servers
• September 2006 access for User Group

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National Comparisons

• CADDIE (Sussex) 280k development over 3 years
  - Annual cost 300k - Staff of 6 - Supported by
  13 CDRPs
• Amethyst (Cornwall) 174k development over 2 to
  3 years - Annual cost 117k - Staff of 4 -
  Supported by 7 CDRPs
• GMAC (Manchester) 2.7m development over 2
  years - Annual cost 569k - Staff of 16 -
  Supported by 10 CDRPs

• MIDAS 90k development over 1 year Annual
  cost c90k Staff of 3 Supported by 10 CDRPs

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Core DatasetComparison
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The MIDAS Environment
Public
MIDAS Service Team
Public

• Secure Firewall

Standard
COUNTY
Specialist
Information
DISTRICTS
Knowledge Products

• Web Site
• Web Server
• GIS Software

What / Where / When Query tool
GIS mapping
Reports / Maps
POLICE
Document library
Analysis service
FIRE

• Database
• Software
• OmniData

Incident / Event Data
AMBULANCE
ETC.
Partners
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MIDAS at workExample on-line screens and outputs

• Administration
• Secure query tool
• Bar charts
• Download summary
• Download event records

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Police recorded incidents of rowdy/nuisancebehavi
our colour coded by counts per ward
MIDAS at workExamples of off-line GIS Analysis
Borough of Broxbourne recorded ASBincidents
shown as a hotspot display
Countywide dwelling burglary hotspotanalysis
Relationship between dwelling burglary hotspots
and neighbourhood watches
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Good Value

• Inexpensive comparatively fast development
  cycle utilising ICT GIS support from HCC
• Fast follower of national pilots
• Provides excellent test base for county (and
  regional?) initiatives e.g. Citizen-GIS
• Catalyst for cultural change in info-sharing and
  cooperation
• Small, multi-skilled experienced team
• Complies with CDA HO recommendations

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Development Vision

• Short term (September / October 2006) User
  Group testing feed-back / implement spatial
  index fixes to enable single layer mapping /
  improve content output
• Medium term (October / December 2006)
  configure additional prioritised products / trial
  integration with Citizen GIS enabling
  overlaying
• Long term (Spring 2007 ongoing) full
  integration of dynamic, multi-layer mapping
  capability / continue improving content outputs
  / become THE default source for Community Safety
  information

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MIDASMulti-Agency Information Data Access
SystemThank you for your time attention
Email midas_at_hertscc.gov.uk Web
www.hertslink.org/midas