Community Services Section

PRISM

The Police Resource Integrated System of Management (PRISM) is a unique technology initiative for empowering and mobilizing all community stakeholders for their crime prevention concerns. This initiative has been developed in partnership between the Miramichi Police Force and the Child Safety Research and Innovation Center (CSRIC).

• A Police Management System and an integrated
• Community Safety Portal

The Police Management System mobilizes the entire police force in initiating and maintaining components, objectives, and operational implications of community policing.

• The Police Management System tracks and compiles Police Inputs of crime statistics and trends, from PORS/CAD Entries.
• It also Tracks and compiles Community Inputs regarding community concerns expressed to police officers through Public Surveys and Neighbourhood Committees.
• It identifies appropriate human and material resources for responding to specific requests using its relational database and integrated portal.
• The system generates reports for facilitation of managerial responses to community needs and resource allocation, which include:
• Measurement of resource allocation
• Measurement of outcomes
• Tracking of training records of police officers.
• Linking to individual officer profiles to identify and document all police personnel’s strengths, interests, and aspersions; thereby, enhancing the organizational learning curve.

These reports facilitate completion of performance appraisals and the community policing component of the promotional processes.

The Community Safety Portal is a safe and secure Internet-based learning environment that will be used by community stakeholders such as police officers, fire fighters, educators, parents, and others who have an interest in making their community safer.

It contains a repository of relevant, current resources regarding community safety issues, ideas, statistics, and theories.

The Community Safety Portal includes Communication and Collaboration tools and a Repository of Resources for all community stakeholders. The Communication and Collaboration Tools include:

• Secure working group areas that link police, child safety professionals, and other community stakeholders.
• A Calendar for each working group that provides individual member input as well as administrator control
• A secure messaging system

The Repository of Resources contains

• Links to professionally vetted content and web sites that provide community stakeholders access to local, national, and international resources and agency information as information found on the internet could be from any source and could be unreliable.
• A search engine for customized searches by
• topic areas,
• demographics,
• user groups,
• organizations,
• lesson plans,
• events and
• content type - including videos, PowerPoint presentations, images, and other resource types;

• Also, Portable Bookmarks that allow members access to their bookmarks from any computer anywhere in the world while using an Internet connection.