Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center

Crime struggles are a joint effort in the state of New York. The state has a number of crime analysis centers that are intertwined to solve criminal matters.

The Mohawk Valley Crime Analysis Center recently received a large upgrade that added the footprint expanded and state -of -the -art technology to catch perpetrators.

“It was 500 square meters, it is now 15,000 square meters, so it's three times as large as possible. We were able to add,” said Joe Popcun, deputy executive commissioner of the New York department for criminal justice. “And now you have 15 work stations and the big video board you see.”

Mark Williams, police chief of Utica, said that video board and other new technologies play an important role in solving crimes.

“Regardless of whether it is polar cameras, stationary readers of signal plates, whether it is a shotpotter technology, we used it and use it to solve crimes,” said Williams.

The center is not specially developed for the Mohawk Valley region. It combines with a network of 11 crime centers across the state and brings 350 law enforcement authorities together in all of the districts in New York.

“We have it along the Thruway and we have one on the southern level. We have one in Long Island and a member of the district of Nassau. And then our youngest is in New York City,” said Popcun.

Together, the Crime Analysis Network can combine the region's points with the region and help to solve crime.

“A licensee reader who receives a goal in Manhattan could be relevant for an investigation in Rome,” said Popcun. “And you never know that unless you have the information you have to sew together.”

The center should also help the victims to feel calm when they report crimes.

“Often the victims do not want to come forward because they do not believe that law enforcement authorities can do everything,” said Bea Hanson, director of the New York State Office of victim services. “And these criminal analysis centers can not only work with the local law enforcement officers, and actually really, really in the entire state to obtain evidence to support the persecution of cases.”

Onida County is not the only crime analysis center that receives a revision. Governor Kathy Hochul dedicated state funds of 31 million US dollars to support the expansion of these centers throughout the state.