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

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

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.


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