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Growth of the Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center, future

Growth of the Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center, future

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What started as a 500 square meter office has developed into a crime analysis center that helps three counties, including its homeland of Utica.

At a press conference on May 22, the members of the governor Kathy Hochul's cabinet joined the law enforcement to show the expansion to the Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center, one of 11 in networks that were financed and supported by the state in cooperation with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Stanley Fernalld, the director of the Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center, was accompanied by Mark Williams, police chief of Utica, Kevin James, the sheriff of Oneida County, Robert Maciol, the district prosecutor Onida County, Todd Carville, and the mayor of Utica, Mike Galime.

The members of the Hochul cabinet included Joseph Popcun, deputy commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services and Bea Hanson, director of the Sacrificial Service Office.

Analysis center

In 2017, the Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center opened its doors and was in a 500 square meter office with only one analyst and some employees from state and local law enforcement authorities.

Thanks to the grants from Hochul's office, the center of the center was expanded to 1,500 square foot and has been increased.

“We were able to renovate with a recently significant investment from the state of New York,” said Fernalld. “And thanks to this renovation, we are not only occupied by members of the guest authorities, but also by full and part -time members of the New York National Guard Counterdrug Task Force and the New York State Department of Transportation Office of Special Investigation.”

What services are offered

According to Fernall, the Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center offers services for the Onida, Herkimer and Lewis counties.

“We offer services for crime analyzes and real -time analyzes for local law enforcement companies in this region,” said Fernalld. Criminal analysts support law enforcement by providing information to the officials. This includes hotspots analyzes, identification and analysis of crime patterns as well as investigative support in real time. “

“We use technologies to support law enforcement agencies in three counties, including automatic readers of number plates, cell analysis tools, acoustic shot shot and video -matching systems,” continued Fernalld. “With our current network we have over 100 municipal and private camera feeds.”

Success of the center

There was a large screen on the other wall, from which safety material from central cameras was analyzed by its employees.

Fernall said that there were numerous successful arrests and law enforcement measures that came from the work of the center.

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“One that I would like to highlight is an incident with shots that happened in the city of Utica,” he said. “The use of all available resources, including video cameras and automatic readers of license plate, lead to a search command that unveiled illegal firearms and a 50-round drum magazine.”

Financing, future

Popcun said that the work that is done has made a difference and that shootings outside of New York City have achieved its lowest point since the start of the recording in 2006.

“And the shootings in Utica decreased by 55% compared to the annual percentage,” he said. “It has dropped by 13%nationwide. In terms of the reported crime in Oneida County, it is almost historical lows. And this progress is only possible on the basis of two things – our partners in law enforcement and supporting the governor.”

For this reason, the New York State budget contains “… public security financing on records that deals with $ 347 million to reduce, solve and prevent weapons. Serve the “targeted reduction in intimate violence nationwide”.

Williams said he had just received the saying that Utica's police department was approved for its striving.

“Our main partners will be the District Prosecutor's Office of YWCA and the District Attorney of Onida,” said the boss. “And we will be able to improve the services for victims of domestic violence while we blame the perpetrators for their actions. And thanks to this scholarship, we will add a new analyst to the center.”

This analyst, said Williams, will devote itself to the analysis of domestic and sexual violence and provide prompt data for law enforcement.

Hanson sometimes said that it can feel that victims of violence do not feel comfortable or are sure that the crime analysis center provides the resources for working with sacrificial service providers.

“And in this year's budget budget, the governor tries to ensure that the victims are supported and stopped without economic effects,” she said. “We have doubled the death advantages for everyone who has become a victim of murder, we have increased the services for victims of financial fraud to 2,500 US dollars and doubled financing for children's representation centers.”

Galime said this support for victims was valued and expansion to the Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center was required.

“Crime and criminal activities are progressed as well as society,” he said. “To keep step, we have to work together between local, state, district and state. And without such a center, this cooperation cannot take place. It is an essential part.”

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