Coral Gables Police understand that Information analysis is the brain behind public safety and seek to join IBM in attaining that goal

The Coral Gables Police Department is closely studying IBM's created white paper :

Public Safety:  "from sense and respond" to "predict and react."

The Coral Gables Police Department is seeking to implement a policing startegy very similiar to the document published by IBM. The Smarter Cities Challenge Grant offered by IBM is an ideal funding oppurtunity for the Coral Gables Police Department to initiate a model policing program like the methodology that IBM supports.

"It seems that IBM really has a firm grasp of the exact direction we as a police department would like to migrate to. Predictive Analysis, data dimensions, and information exploration are all areas that we want to employ." said Michael Hearns a Coral Gables Police Officer.

An exerpt from the IBM white paper is below:
The goal of intelligence activities is to uncover security threats in time to take action against them. But the patterns that point to these threats are often hidden in massive amounts of data. To meet this challenge, one form of information analysis, predictive analytics, is particularly useful. Predictive analytics solutions apply sophisticated statistical, data exploration and machine-learning techniques to historical information in order to help agencies uncover hidden patterns and trends – even in large, complex datasets. Not only in huge tables of structured data but also in vast amounts of textual data – including e-mail and chat room interactions – that agencies must evaluate. By using predictive analytics, you can anticipate what types of intervention will be needed, and where. So you can plan, rather than react. And make the best use of available resources.

The entire white paper can be viwed by clicking the link HERE

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Coral Gables Police sets goal of an ALPR system utilizing assistance from IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge

The Coral Gables Police Department hopes to utilize assistance and technological input from IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge in creating a mobile and stationary Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system. The desired system will allow license plate reader cameras to feed images and information to a command center which in turn will use the data to create predictive analysis, investigative tools, and data sharing opportunities within the tri county area of Miami Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties. The ALPR system is the beginning stage of an information and data sharing venture that the City of Coral Gables intends to build to structure a new and future evolving intelligence stream for the Coral Gables Police Department,  and the University of Miami Public Safety Department.


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IBM: Next Generation Crime Fighting -- The Power of Analytics with a Smarter Cities Challenge Grant

Coral Gables and IBM creating smarter cities for our community, today, tomorrow, and in the future

Coral Gables: A South Florida city with multinational connections

As early as 1925, City founder George Merrick predicted Coral Gables would serve as “a gateway to Latin America.” The City’s multinational business community includes an array of corporations with such interests as oil production, health care, biomedical research, international finance, import and export as oil production, health care, biomedical research, international finance, import and export, transportation, manufacturing, travel and tourism, news information services, telecommunications, and construction/real estate. Currently, Coral Gables is regional headquarters to more than 135 multinationals. Regional offices are heavy purchasers of professional services, particularly in the areas of international law, accounting and global marketing. Although many of the multinational companies have located in Coral Gables to service South and Central America, several of the offices have expanded their reach to include other parts of the globe due to the ease of international travel, reliable telecommunications, and multilingual/multicultural professional staff. In fact, over 100 countries are served from corporate addresses in the City Beautiful. More can be seen HERE

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Multinational Corporations based or operating in Coral Gables

ABC News*ACS Infrastructure Development*Adobe Systems*AECOM*Alvarez & Marsal*AmericaEconomia Group*American Airlines*ANSAC*Apple*Arcor USA*Arthur Murray International*AstraZeneca Latin America*AT&T*Bacardi*Banacol Marketing Corporation*Banco de Credito del Peru*Banco Internacional de Costa*Rica*Bank of America*Batanga Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.*Berlitz Language Center*Berna Products Corporation*Bunge Latin America*Burns & McDonnell Engineering*Campbell Soup Company*Cargill*Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Assoc.*CC1 Companies*Century 21*CH2M Hill Inc.*Charles Schwab L.A. &Caribbean*Chattem*Cherry, Bekaert and Holland*Chevron Products Company L.A.*Christie’s Fine Art Auctioneers*Cisneros*Citrix Systems

Coldwell Banker*Colemont*Colliers International*Copca*Crosswell International*Dabrein*Danone Foods

Del Monte Fresh Produce*ED&F Man*Egon Zehnder International*EMC Corporation*Enterprise Florida

ESPA International*ExxonMobil Inter-America**Fabio Perini Latin America*FAG Interamericana*Fidelity Investments*Fleishman Hillard*Fowler, Rodriguez, Valdes-Fauli*Fox Latin America*Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy*FTI Consulting*Fuji Industries*Fyffes*Garcia-Colinas Trading and Engineering*Gettys Miami*Global Life Insurance*Grupo Kettal*Grupo Uno International*H.J. Heinz Co.- Latin America*HBO Latin America*Heery International*Hill and Knowlton/SAMCOR*Hines Holdings*Hyatt Hotels & Resorts*Iberica International Corporation*Infante Zumpano*Inlingua LanguageCenter*IntelSat*InterOrient Navigation*IOS Partners*Jones Lang La Salle Hotels*JP Morgan Chase*Kraft Foods Latin America*La Perla* Latin American Agribusiness Dev.*Lexmark International Latin America*Lorina*LVMH Watch & Jewelry Carib. & L.A.*Lynch Sales Company*Maccaferri*Marriott*MasTec*Merrill Lynch*MetLife*Mexbrit*Mercantil Commercebank*MGM Networks Latin America*Mitsubishi Estate Company*MoneyGram Latin America*Movado Group*OBM International

Odebrecht Construction*Ogilvy & Mather, Latina*Pedelta*Perkins + Will*Prudential Financial

Ravenscroft Ship Management*Raymond James & Associates*RE/MAX8Richemont L.A. & Caribbean

Robert Half International*RTKL Associates*S & K Worldwide Realty*Sice*Spencer Stuart*Starbucks Latin America*Starcom Group*Steiner Management Services*Swarovski*T. Y. Lin International*Telemundo Internacional*Terra Networks*The Princeton Review*Time Warner*TMP Worldwide Directional Marketing*Towers Watson*Turbana Corporation*UBS International*Unilever*Univision Radio*US Airways*Venevision International*VR Business Brokers*Walt Disney Television International*Warner Brothers*Wells Fargo*William Grant & Sons Distillers*Wrigley Sales Company

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A significant number of foreign government offices have chosen a Coral Gables address

Centro Cultural Español de Cooperacion Iberoamericana

Consortium for Commercial Promotion of Catalonia

Consulate General of Barbados

Consulate General of Colombia

Consulate General of El Salvador

Consulate General of Italy

-Trade Commission

Consulate General of the Principality of Monaco

Consulate General of Spain

- Office of Education

- Trade Commission

Consulate of St. Lucia

Consulate General of Uruguay

Guatemala Tourist Commission

Honorary Consulate of Belize

Honorary Consulate of Finland

Honorary Consulate of Hungary

Honorary Consulate of Senegal

Honorary Consulate of Togo

Honorary Consulate General of St. Kitts & Nevis

Honorary Consulate General of Thailand

Honorary Consulate of El Salvador

Office of Foreign Missions

Taipei Economic & Cultural Office

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Major employers and community partners in Coral Gables

University of Miami

The Biltmore Hotel

Doctors Hospital

Baptist Health South Florida HQ

Coral Gables Hospital

Mercantil Commerce Bank, N.A.

Mercedes-Benz of Coral Gables

Bacardi U.S.A.

Del Monte Fresh Produce

Gables Engineering

Yard House Restaurant

Univision Radio Florida

Kindred Hospital S. Fla. Coral Gables

AECOM

Hyatt Regency Coral Gables

Odebrecht Corporation

Gibraltar Bank

Richemont Latin America & Caribbean

Chevron Texaco Carib./Cent. America

The Westin Colonnade Hotel

Kraft Foods Caribbean Sales

Merrill Lynch Bank & Trust Co.

Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell

American Airlines

HBO Latin America

T.Y. Lin International

Dade County Public Schools

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IBM Smarter Cities Challenge 2011 recipient St. Louis focuses on public safety. Coral Gables Police intend to create a new method of policing with IBM's assistance.

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Coral Gables establishes sister city program with international cities

The City of Coral Gables has been building and strengthening partnerships with international communities since 1957 through the Sister Cities International Program. The goal of the program is to create educational and cultural exchanges between Sister Cities with a similar Mediterranean character.

On July 15th at the Annual Award Ceremony held at the historic Warsaw Theater during the 50th Annual Sister Cities International Conference in Washington D.C., Coral Gables received the Best Overall Program Award for the City's continued success in building international relationships.

Coral Gables took home this prestigious award in recognition of the City's efforts, experience and continued success in promoting citizen diplomacy, networking and partnerships between the U.S. and international communities.

The City has a long standing reputation and is now being recognized for years of work building global partnerships, promoting citizen diplomacy, and establishing an international cultural exchange. Recently Coral Gables came to the rescue of their Sister City Cartagena, Colombia when one of its fine arts colleges was unable to pay for much needed musical instruments.The Coral Gables Sister City Program is administered by the Development Department and the City's International Affairs Coordinating Council, a group of volunteer residents for the purpose of enhancing international relations. The cities are:

Aix-en Provence, France

Cartagena, Colombia

Granada, Spain

La Antigua, Guatemala

Province of Pisa, Italy

Quito, Ecuador

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Miami Dade County Major Roads within Coral Gables

Name	State Road	Both Ways	Intersecting Road(s)
Lejeune Road	S.R  953	North/South	Bird, Coral Way, U.S 1,U.S 41, Sunset, Flagler
Old Cutler	ex U.S 1	North/South	Sunset, Kendall
Red Road	S. R 959	North/South	U.S 1,  Kendall, Sunset, Bird , Coral Way, U.S 41,
Douglas Rd		North/South	U.S 1, Bird Road, Coral Way, U.S 41, Flagler St.
U.S 1	U.S 1	North/South	Kendall, Sunset, Red, Bird, Lejeune, Douglas
Coral Way	S.R 972	East/West	Red, Lejeune, Douglas
Flagler		East/West	Red, Lejeune , Douglas
SW 8th street	U.S 41	East/West	Red, Lejeune , Douglas
Sunset Drive	S.R 986	East/West	Lejeune, U.S 1, Red Rd
Kendall Drive	S.R 94	East/West	Old Cutler rd, Red Rd

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