The EPS dashboard will go live at 9:30 a.m. (Aug. 18, 2016) at dashboard.edmonton.ca/eps and is compatible for viewing on any device such as a smartphone or tablet. The dashboard was created internally by EPS in collaboration with the City of Edmonton.
“We want to continue to be as transparent as we can by openly sharing crime data, statistics and performance measures with the public,” says Supt. Chad Tawfik, of EPS Office of Strategy Management.
The dashboard provides results for policing topic areas at a glance and users can click through to each area to learn more with measure descriptions, visualizations of historical data and supporting metrics, and links to additional information. Users can also access all underlying dashboard data on the City’s Open Data Portal (data.edmonton.ca) to share, download and comment on.
“We were very pleased to collaborate with EPS to help them host their dashboard,” says Wendy Gnenz, Branch Manager, Open City and Innovation. “It is partnerships like this that help grow the Open City Initiative by providing residents and businesses with access to information that is important to them.”
In addition to the public information available currently (such as response times and levels of crime and disorder), citizens can now also get information on: domestic violence occurrences, impaired driving incidents, traffic injury rate, number of persons with criminal warrants, and the police to population ratio through the dashboard.
“Beyond the broad scope of data being released, the best part of this platform is how easy it is for the public to now access our data, make comments, ask questions and put forward requests for other policing data they would like to see made available,” says Cal Schafer, Strategic Analyst with EPS.
This data complements the Neighbourhood Crime Mapping application (launched in 2009) which gives citizens daily updated maps and statistics for eight violent and property crime indicators. The crime maps can be found at http://crimemapping.edmontonpolice.ca/