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New Crime Mapping Tool Available for the Public

Monday, 20 May 2013 11:22

Woodstock residents are getting a better picture of where crime is taking place in their community. Woodstock Police have launched CrimePlot, a local crime mapping tool on their website. Information Technology Manager Paul White says the application allows citizens to visualize criminal activity and police calls in our community. "It provides the public with information on a subset of occurrence types that are important for the public to see. Assaults, break and enters that are happening within their community within the last 90 days. It plots it out on the map, with a margin of error to protect the individuals that are involved." Woodstock Police say you will not find incidents of sudden death, suicides, mental health issues, domestic violence or child abuse on the site. White says residents aren't able to zoom in on the map too far in order to help anonymize the visualizations and while it may appear an incident happened right over top of your home, it may have happened 200 plus feet away. Midland Police created the application and brought it live at no charge to Woodstock Police. The site is also not up to the minute, with incidents updated at least one day after they happened. To view CrimePlot, simply go to the Woodstock Police website and click on the CrimePlot, Crime Mapping icon.

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