[Vancouver GIS UG] Fw: Vancouver GIS Users Group: Talk Tomorrow Evening
- From: doug.hrynyk@xxxxxxxxx
- To: vangisug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:54:48 -0700
Hello everyone,
Next Wednesday Ryan Prox will be talking about using analysis to transform
an agency to be intelligence led. This is a talk that you don't want to
miss.
Also, it is time to start signing up for our annual Poster and Show-n-tell
Session in May. We already have the first participants lined up. For
those not yet familiar with our popular season-ending event, details are
provided below. If you have questions, ask myself or another steering
committee member at next week's meeting.
Regards,
Doug Hrynyk
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April 11, 2012
Speaker: Ryan Prox, Special Constable, Vancouver Police Department
Topic: Transforming Your Agency to Intelligence-led Using Analysis: From
Incident to Analysis to Action
It's not uncommon for police agencies to promote an intelligence-led
policing model, but how many are able to overcome some of the challenges
that stand in the way of realizing these goals? It's simply not enough to
hire good analysts and put them to work. Police organizations must change
in fundamental ways in order to successfully embrace this model of
policing. This session will provide a case study of the 2010 Vancouver
Winter Olympics from a security and critical incident management
perspective. Unlike previous major events in Vancouver, where analytics
provided post-event feedback and analysis of a predictive nature, the 2010
Olympics saw analytics (specifically GIS analytics) propelled to the
forefront of operational decision-making and relevance. The session will
provide a unique insight into how information was data-mined from various
records management and dispatch systems, and successfully adapted for
specialized applications such as major event management, critical
infrastructure analysis and the development of an integrated
counter-terrorism response capability. This session will also provide the
audience with an overview of how GIS recently played a significant role in
the Vancouver Police Department's apprehension of a serial sex offender,
and will finish with next steps in the evolution of the department's use of
GIS technology
Bio: Ryan Prox, Special Constable, Vancouver Police Department
As the Analytics Services Coordinator for the Vancouver Police Department
(VPD), Special Constable Ryan Prox has firsthand experience in pioneering
and implementing analytic programs, training and technology that addresses
the operational, tactical and strategic needs of the organization. S/Cst.
Prox has over twenty years experience in law enforcement. He began his
career with the Department of Defence as an intelligence officer, where he
worked overseas on a number of NATO and United Nations missions, with the
most notable being Bosnia-Herzegovina. Following that he embarked on a law
enforcement career as an intelligence officer working Eastern European
organized crime and outlaw motorcycle gangs with the Coordinated Law
Enforcement Agency (CLEU), a provincial organized crime taskforce. He then
transferred to the Vancouver Police Department where he created and moved
into the newly formed Department Security Office responsible for internal
security. During his career, S/Cst Prox was seconded to the Organized Crime
Agency BC (OCABC) to work on a long-term intelligence probe of Asian
organized crime and the City-wide Enforcement Team (CET), a beat-unit
assigned to police Canada’s most extensive and prolific open drug market.
He was also assigned to the Missing Women Investigation Review. This was a
probe of the investigation of the worse serial killer in Canadian history,
Robert Pickton, who is suspected of killing upwards of 49 women. S/Cst Prox
has also worked in the VPD Counter-Terrorism Unit, where his duties
included national security threat assessments and the development of a
critical infrastructure analysis system. Most recently, S/Cst Prox was
responsible for overseeing the VPD’s analytic contribution to the 2010
Winter Olympics. He holds a graduate degree with a focus on police resource
efficiency and evaluative practices, and he serves as a sessional
instructor at Simon Fraser University, instructing in the School of
Criminology. S/Cst. Prox has lectured nationally and internationally on a
host of topics including the development of an analytic capacity within
police organizations. In 2010, he was the recipient of the International
Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) Award of
Excellence and one of the recipients of the Webber Seavey Award from the
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).
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May 9, 2012
Topic: Vancouver GIS Users' Group May 2010 Show-and-Tell:
Our annual networking event is coming up soon. This is a great opportunity
to showcase your recent projects, learn about your colleagues' work, and
catch up with friends and meet new ones in a casual, friendly environment.
You are invited to present your projects in a variety of ways: a poster, a
map you made earlier this year, leaflets from a recent public information
campaign, printouts from a web site, a sideshow on your laptop....
Anything you can think of that will catch people's attention and help start
a conversation about your work. It doesn't need to be fancy, it's okay if
it only took you ten minutes to assemble, and it doesn't matter if you
already presented it elsewhere (but please credit the original event, if
that's the case). Please, we request that presentations are project-based
rather than vendor presentations -- there are other forums for those.
The Show-And-Tell will take place 5:30 PM Wednesday, May 9 in the Dunsmuir
Auditorium, BC Hydro office tower, 333 Dunsmuir Street. There will be wall
space and tables. There may be one or two internet connection(s), which
can be reserved. Please contact Doug Hrynyk through the web site to
express your interest in presenting your work.
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