NCJ Number
76299
Date Published
Unknown
Length
250 pages
Annotation
An evaluation of the first phase of the San Francisco Police Department's Integrated Criminal Apprehension Program (ICAP) is presented.
Abstract
The ICAP aimed to improved the department's ability to identify, analyze, and disseminate information concerning ongoing crime problems and to deploy police resources effectively and efficiently. Other goals were to identify and apprehend offenders through a realignment and revitalization of the investigative process and to establish cooperation between the department and the district attorney's office in the preparation of cases for prosecution. Presented are data related to goal and objective attainment, to program productivity, and to other measures of success. Special attention is given to the ICAP's establishment of the Crime Analysis Unit in the department's Planning and Research Division in September 1977. The unit successfully assumed the responsibility for the production of routine statistical reports, made new communications mechanisms available to the department, and performed operational evaluations. Evolving and existent crime patterns were identified, and data for the deployment of operational units were developed. In the area of investigations, ICAP personnel conducted a training needs survey and developed training materials for lessons in preliminary investigation. This effort was related to a decision to assign preliminary investigation functions to patrol officers. Program personnel also conducted a series of workload studies for the various sections of the Investigations Bureau. Other program activities discussed include interviews with command personnel and a survey of patrol officers' opinions on ICAP performance, and an analysis of four cases in which ICAP efforts assisted in the apprehension of multiple offenders. Appendixes contain evaluation materials. Maps, sample reports, and data tables and graphs are included.