Society & Community Refurbishment through Proactive Reinforcement with Education & Criminal Checks & Balances

Inner Focused Attributes to Succeed in Analytic Crime Fighting

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO, Tracometry Group of Companies.

When it comes to crime fighting, there is not another quiver out there that can match the significance of the Circle of Fire with Tracometry Group of Companies Digital Services and Analytics.  

It is about PROACTIVITY, not reactive, late to the party actions.

• Atmospherics Noise Collection (Chatter on the Streets)    
• Crime Statistics
• Tracking Analysis
• Point to Point Tracking
• Calls for Service Data
• Next Event Predictability
• Social Media Real Time Tracking
• Digital Street Level Data Input in Real Time - Penamatics
• The Pied Piper Project – Rejuvenating Communities & Eradicating Crime
• Recoupeit – Reuniting Revenues (Successful Debt Collections)

Gathering insights – Tracometry Group of Companies, being a digital input, anthropological fused, down to earth, street smart, analytic core based company.  It is obvious that we use analytical systems, workshops with our front line staff and customer focused groups, ethnographic studies and in-depth interviews to garner our expertise. 

It is a daily routine for us to be researching in the specific field of Public Safety worldwide and is a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena, which we know is ongoing.  That is the core factor for all our successes.

Redesign – we have and do work with our clients to develop a series of community service blueprints – improvements to the way tasks are carried out and what operational changes are needed – changes to IT and to operational infrastructure, and to the way staff can save on the resources that are part of the waste in public safety. We can help you stay ahead of the criminal element by ensuring that you are taking advantage of new crime fighting techniques that really work – and avoiding ideas that are merely fashionable.

Atmospheric Noise Collection - The unique Atmospheric Noise Collection is the start and then has to be analyzed to bring the information into usable data to protect, all in real time!

Atmospheric Noise Collection provides insight into local perspectives, indicates opinion trends, identifies emerging community influencers, measures messaging effectiveness and puts disparate intelligence reports in context.  Atmospheric Noise Collection would have easily and accurately predicted each of the Middle Eastern countries’ populaces’ unstoppable move to revolution.  

 

Predictive analysis is a fundamental feature that is required and delivered by us, across all agencies and is a vast assist feature to reduce wasted resources and increase productivity.  Next Event Predictability saves so much manpower and by repetitive data streams we can predict the next event of the culprits, with having to spend man hours following or staking out the suspects.  It comes the human patterns and we have broken into the DNA of predictability for real!

Constant innovation is the norm these days and it can be difficult to distinguish between the superficially attractive and the genuinely valuable. Perpetual Beta Phenomenon is not!  Never allowing a product or feature to touch the user’s hands and tweaking it all the time reduces productivity and needed results.  Our skilled analysts assess what’s available and identify the best of the important techniques we have developed that should be made available to you.

At the same time we can call on our crime analytical specialists who use their imagination, skills and experience to come up with fresh ways of doing things, tailored for all your crime fighting and analytical needs.  Knowing the dark-side is an absolute advantage for your former law enforcement personnel and allows them to show your in-house analysts the productive shorts cuts for success.

But innovations will only deliver benefits if they’re implemented properly, by people who understand in depth what they’re doing. When it comes to applying new ideas we ensure that the innovations you choose to uses from us are embedded properly in your analytic capabilities.  Training is the key and with the Internet, we are always on call 24/7 and video backup of solutions can be made available to you.

We have turned great ideas into practical benefits that give you a solid return on your investment.  With over 44 years of law enforcement experience and 20 years of crime fighting analytics, we have solidified the course of action required and demanded by all.

Data analytics and insight involves taking data and using it to turn a variety of information into insights that can drive specific actions to benefit you:

• increased effectiveness – focusing your operations on mission readiness
• increased efficiency – through learning how to deliver increased productivity and avoiding waste
• increased speed in delivering the necessary high quality analysis to support decision making
• support for continuous improvement – analyzing how performance may be improved

   We listen, We create, We deliver for your targeted needs

We have helped deliver more efficient ways of working, found ways of saving costs and developed more agile ways for you to serve the public with simplistic analytic solutions.

Transform the existing needs – into new productive results

We adopt the right approach for the circumstances: transforming and managing existing services – or creating completely new service infrastructures. We have the right balance of law enforcement/analysts, algorithmic skills, street smarts and technology to achieve all – and the experience to recommend the best course of action.

Looking after your technology and support services – leaving you free to focus on what matters, crime fighting which with the Tracometry Group of Companies is cost effective.

We help you improve services, save money and resources.

Our approach to delivering the services you need is highly flexible. We can provide individual products; or we can take on the management and delivery of fully outsourced services. Having analysts on staff for you and guiding the initial day to day solutions.  Our breadth of experience means that we are in a position to recommend and introduce innovative ways of achieving your goals – offering the opportunity of making even more resourceful savings.

The pressure to deliver better for less is an ever-present challenge and it’s clear that this is not going to change. We can help you get the most out of your budget with an unbeatable combination of useable innovation, long-established sector experience, unrivalled skills, scale, flexibility and resourcefulness.

We provide a comprehensive portfolio of crime fighting solutions and services to meet all your IT needs. At the heart of each is efficiency, security and effectiveness.

We work right across both the private and public sectors and our proven track record delivers the IT that brings you the demanded results.

Better IT

The right information technology can bring your organization to the peak of performance – faster service, lower cost, higher information action levels. We work in partnership with  public safety agencies, the DoD (Department of Defense), and world governments, bringing together people, processes and technology to transform the way they fight all levels of societal crime.

We harness the most appropriate technology to transform your service delivery. Because we’re independent of IT manufacturers, like IBM and other database operations, we can select the solutions that’s exactly right for your organization’s needs.  Our expertise is directly in your field of operations, so your ramp up time for implementation is weeks, not months or years.  Our annual server fees are far less and more secure.

Pricing, training and implementation can be discussed once you have seen one of our Webinars, book your 45 minute introduction to the Tracometry Group of Companies World of Digital Solutions and place a Circle of Fire around your city or municipality.

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW… 

Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email: nick.ashton@tracometry.com

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We Hear it All the Time...

Failure Is Not An Option…

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO,

Tracometry Group of Companies.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

-The Declaration of Independence

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is a phrase we hear all the time. Those rights were obviously foremost at the Founders’ minds at the birth of our nation. But what does it mean to us today? Perhaps even more important, what are the rights, responsibilities and expectations of citizens in 21st Century America?

Is the great American republican experiment, epitomized by the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights at risk in today’s and tomorrow’s America—a nation that will grow from 300 million to 400 million inhabitants over the next forty years?

The oil and water problems of the public safety departments, just do not mix:

a.) Increasing crime and increasing anti-social behavior  

b.) Financial failure in securing a realistic budget to complete the daily crime fighting tasks

Two simple aspects of life that affects every single one of us and must not be allowed to be diluted or fail!

The heart of society is the community, its people.  We have witnessed the absolute decline in standards and quality of life and major increase in entitlement spending, which today is viewed as a God given right.  Entitlements are not!

A street level British police officer recently shared these thoughts with us in regard to the Tracometry Group of Companies and its proven, implemented concepts that make that real radical difference worldwide:

“Hi Nick,

I have spent some of the day reading through some of your ideas and it is so encouraging that we speak the same language.

I am currently working on a very similar project where we are getting greater community and partnership involvement and fixing the broken windows bit by bit!

I have been involved in community policing for around 15 years and have been a Sergeant on the same Neighbourhood for the past 3-years. I have insisted that my bosses give me at least 5-years in order to make a real difference.

We are currently tackling the young gangs, drug dealers and other trouble makers. We are getting more community support and saying to them don't moan about police ineffectiveness if you are not willing to get involved and make a stand!

We will support you!

We are working closely with Housing Associations and taking positive steps to evict problem families! Yes, they have to live somewhere but not all in one street where they can group together and intimidate more vulnerable families!

Diluting these groups makes a real difference!

I know you are a businessman and want to make money, I have no access to million pound budgets that can assist your innovative business. However, we do share the same vision and I hope we can keep in touch and prove that by working together in partnership real changes can be made!

Regards,
Jxx Xxxxx”

Jim wants to implement all our solutions and we are in discussion with British Police on this matter.

At the core of change is information, the collection from the streets, the immediate

posting to a database, so it is available in real time in the assistance within a situation. Ease of Analysis, information that can be searched, researched and then, placed in reports that are automatically created and delivered to the people that have the need to know.

• Crime Analysis
• Tracking Analysis
• Calls For Service Data
• Next Event Predictability

This is the heart of our success and will be yours.  It does not stop there, we have the Tracometry Circle of Fire.

It starts as simply as a pen writing on a piece of digital paper, citations, reports, your notebook notes, witness statement, all being handwritten and sent directly to a database as text.  Handwriting conversion, second to none, editable, with the original always intact.  Date, time, GPS location, all included and our Penamatics solution is at your fingertips.

We have already mentioned the core of analytics which now allows you to have the up-to-date information to solve the current problems.  The community and neighborhood problems, which include:

• Teens killing teens
• Drug use, sellers and buyers
• Domestic violence
• Child abuse
• Rape
• Anti-social behavior
• Housing issues, landlord/tenant
• Parking
• Illegal businesses

These can be eradicated with the Pied Piper Project which is a program that trains officers and management departments to work hand in hand with cross agency information.  This solution brings a cohesive application to all, with increased communication and far better neighborhoods and citizens.

Finally, the monies you are owed as a municipality, who is collecting it and at what cost?  It is all well and good that police officers, code enforcement issue citations, which the courts then adjudicate on, but what is the point if the fines and court costs are never paid.  Wasted time and effort all round at it has cost you with uncollected monies and a budget deficit.


Recoupeit - reunites revenues, over twenty years as the largest bailiff company in the U.K. is part of the Tracometry Group of Companies and brings debt collection to a deserved level for all involved, those that owe the adjudicated monies and the municipalities.

The Tracometry Circle of Fire is a successful solution for change!

As we stated, Failure Is Not An Option…

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW… 

Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email: nick.ashton@tracometry.com

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Ban Perpetual Beta Phenomenon!

Proactive Actions

Policing the Past: Protecting the Future

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO,

Tracometry Group of Companies.

Proactive Policing has got to be removed from Perpetual Beta Phenomenon. 

We do not any more new ideas to be tried this week!  The art of control, policing, is alive and well and been doing great for centuries.  It is the ability to take what has been successful in the past and easily overlay proven technology to actively understand your concerns and then eliminate them.

I was reading somewhere that things had been vastly different back in the day or had they?

England’s tithing system begun in 648 A.D.  This system included groups of village men (usually 10) responding to the commission of a criminal offense.  The group was summoned from the course of their daily routine by a “hue and cry” that beckoned a response to pursue the offender. Upon capturing the criminal, he was turned over to an authority and the group disbanded, returning to individual duties.  Sounds kind of sane to me, if you want to be reactionary.

Fast-forward to today, 1365 years later and observe patrolling in action. They randomly move throughout a subjectively drawn geographic beat conducting independent police and non-police actions.  The patterns they travel or the areas selectively chosen for conducting these random acts of policing don’t really matter.  That is until the high-band radio cries out an offense in progress, and the non-cohesive actions of a clustering of officers’ turns into a coordinated mass response.

Singular in mission and motion, these officers unite for pursuing the so called offender.  Once he or she is apprehended, the suspect is delivered to the local authority and the unit disbands back again into their non-choreographed areas of responsibility.  We even still use the horse, domesticated dog, and chase on foot during these actions while remaining close to the historical roots of our enforcement service delivery methods.  Although I’m sure even the village idiot would appreciate today’s police fleet advancements, whether it’s the act of deploying ultrasonic sound to disorient an offender, or throwing a rock from the village cliff, the philosophy of reactive police response remains unchanged from all those years ago.

Is this using our resources or inventory in the right manner?

No! 

The policing evolution has been slow to come, but it is coming, I know so, as we are at the forefront. Citizens, elected officials, and progressive law enforcement commanders are demanding efficiency and effectiveness from agencies serving as peace keepers and social service providers.  As a profession, policing assumes responsibility for measuring levels of crime and perceived effectiveness in combating that crime.  This is a dangerous combination, and is similar to asking the fox to keep a count of the chickens.  Feathers are strewn everywhere and those floating feathers never seem to hit the ground in real time, finding their way into our mouths, sticking and make us panic in the removal process.

Let us put the brakes on all these meetings and more bloody meetings and show you the answer.  I know bold that we are and rightfully on-track, successful and down-to-earth in our methodology.  I ask you to listen.

The Tracometry Group of Companies Circle of Fire is all encompassing, from the digital collection of street level data through the crime analytics, tracking, Calls for Service data, and importantly, Next Event Predictability, the Pied Piper Project – rejuvenation and restoration of Trust, Respect and Pride in communities and recoupeit – reuniting revenues to municipalities and cities from the already agreed court imposed and ordinance fines.

We bring a full overview of the Tracometry analytics at the heart of our services powered by our strategic partner, BAIR Analytics.

Firstly, on a more technical note, we couple unique analytical methodologies and techniques with analyst-supporting software applications to identify patterns and predict serial events. This capability has been developed to aid analysts in better assessing the “when” and “where” of events through sophisticated software applications of predominately off-the-shelf technologies and analytical techniques that have been melded together in a unique way.

It is considered the best of its kind in the market place today with respect to predictive analytics for fighting domestic crime with similar performance for the DoD and the Intelligence Community at both the tactical and strategic levels.

In its first trial within the DoD Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat organization (JIEDDO), it has proven very successful countering terrorist intent on ‘blowing up’ U.S. tactical vehicles, undisputedly saving hundreds of U.S. lives on the battle field. With minimal modification and marginal costs BAIR Analytic’s capabilities can be adapted to other counter-terrorist and counter-threat programs within DoD (Service Branches, Combatant Commands, Provost Marshall), DHS (Federal Protective Service, I&A, Cyber Security, Secret Service) the Intelligence community (DNI, DIA, CIA, NSA, NGA, NRO, AFISRA, ONI, MCIA, NCTC) and the Department of State (Bureau of Counter-Terrorism, Bureau of Diplomatic Security).

Tracometry’s Tools, powered by BAIR Analytics and Methodologies Embraced by the Department of Defense

These tools and methodologies are currently being used by the JIEDDO as a unique counter­terrorism and counter-threat capability that has directly contributed to saving lives of our nation’s warfighters. This is being accomplished through BAIR’s groundbreaking behavioral pattern analysis and predictive analytics, greatly enhancing the capabilities needed to accomplish JIEDDO’s mission to assist in anticipating, searching, locating and removing or neutralizing IEDs from the battlefield and attacking the enemy networks which employ IEDs.

Predictions of behavior, space and time made by analysts using BAIR tools and methodologies are relevant to operational warfighters - not only to Route Clearance Teams clearing roadways, but also to intelligence sections with the primary mission of attacking the enemy network. At JIEDDO, predicting future events allows for preventing, deterring, disrupting, or displacing nefarious activity, thus enabling our warfighters to “get left of boom” to protect lives and accomplish the mission.

In addition to the analytical work being done at JIEDDO, our software applications and training have been implemented at regional offices of the U.S. Army’s Provost Marshall to confront burgeoning crime trends and patterns on military posts. The application of these tools has led officers to “the exact time and place the bad guy hit next.”

Asked in a meeting the other day, if the DoD was using us with specific designed software, we had and do answer this way, due to security restrictions of information, the answers simple, it was for our street level ability that we were chosen.  Our everyday abilities for all, which of course includes every crime analytic department worldwide.  We give the same capabilities to all to catch the bad guys in the most cost effective, time saving resource utilization.

Tool-Enhanced Analytical Capabilities with Tracometry Analytics, powered by BAIR Analytics provides the development of dynamic and complex analytical solutions to critical and hazardous problem sets through the utilization of advanced Tactical, Strategic and Operational analyses.

Our analysts, supplemented by a robust suite of proprietary software tools, are able to identify patterns of illegal and nefarious activities allowing for the prediction of the next event. The software applications are used to enhance the analyst’s capabilities by uniquely combining tools and analytical techniques not found in other software applications:

·        dSpace – used to spatially predict next events

·        Next-Event Time Series – used to temporally predict next events

·        TeXtraction – Used to perform text analytics to find entities, relationships and events within text-based data

·        Concepts & KWIC Expressions – Used to mine data for key terms, individuals, actions or attributes

·        Temporal Topology – used to visualize relationships between days and times of events

·        Choropleth Calendar – used to visualize relationships between days and months of events

·        Anniversary Watch – used to measure the relationship between events and key historically important dates, seasons or previous events

·        T-Coordinate – used to measure the duration of events in a series

·        Calendar Topology - used to visualize the volume of events over long periods of time

 Color Cueing – used to visualize values or densities in a dataset or map

 Blink – used to determine the connectivity, relevance, structure and crucial linkages between key nodes in a social or organizational network of individuals or entities

 3D Hotspots - used to calculate and visualize concentrations of activity geospatially

 Prediction Zones – used to forecast concentrations and migrations of future threat activity geospatially

 Trend Hunter – used to automatically identify new events in existing patterns

This unique combination of tools allows the trained analyst to ingest large volumes of structured and unstructured data to quickly identify and analyze events resulting in accurate and precise next event predictions. 

Time is of the essence and when a potential client ask of his analysts, if they could do with the present in-house system, what Tracometry does, they paused, and answered yes, but, what Tracometry does in seconds and minutes, would take us half a day!

This is just a mere sample of what we are doing today.  It allows you to use your restricted resources in ways you never imagined.

Instead of using man power, overtime you can ill afford in following a suspect, using our predictive analysis, we pinpoint the day, location and possible time of the suspects’ next actions.  Allowing normal work to continue and not wasting resources, yes, bankable resources for that rainy day.

So stop the Perpetual Beta Phenomenon and start using proven, state of the art technology today!

Book a demonstration through one of our personal webinars to see how cost effective crime fighting really is.

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW… 

Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email: info@tracometry.com

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Cost Effective Resources

Crime Fighting Core Values 

By Nick Ashton, Founder/CEO 

Tracometry Group of Companies 

No matter where we look, the word budgets and attempting to maintain core values seems to pop off the page.

When it comes to policing our civilization, maintaining law, order,
investigations and court time, we have failed from the original reasons that Sir Robert Peel invented policing back in 1829. Back then it was visibility of the officers, wearing a tall hat and the sounds of the police whistle that stated that crime fighters where on the streets. Pro-active reasoning!

Warnings from high-ranking police officers that budget cuts are causing deep unrest, not with the criminals who benefit from the cuts, it is the front line police officers themselves and must be taken seriously. Demoralizing police, is leading to a loss of confidence from the community and a rise in crimes.

Comments from Public Safety Directors should not be ignored by the Government or police hierarchy. The same warnings went unheeded in the late 1990s with disastrous consequences and we see the results today of those moves. "At a time when budgets and non-sworn support staff are being cut again and again, we would be very foolish to ignore the warnings now being given by senior police who have seen the long-term consequences of such cuts before.

In the late 1990s, senior police officers warned that budget cuts meant
resources were stretched too thin.

Gangs, drugs, child abuse and other areas of 'business-as-usual' policing were being neglected while police bosses focused resources on delivering so called paper results in the areas the Government demanded.

Those officers saw their warnings unheeded and many left with the same sense of frustration shown in street level policing comments of today.

The changing face of policing needs to be positive.

If the gate is undone, the field is empty and the sheep have gone, you then spend resources on searching for the known lost sheep. That is expensive failed reactionary policing.

Positive policing is pro-active, good sturdy fencing, a secure gate and locking system that stops them from escaping or being stolen. Even more hi-tech, are sensors, cameras and a reporting system.

Like all households, public safety and police are keeping a close eye on spending in difficult financial times, and are attempting in working smarter and better to produce citizen demanded results. The problem is the information they are working off, is old data and not current.

These public warnings are just the tip of the iceberg, echoing concerns being expressed privately by many senior officers.

The police hierarchy will always be tempted to dismiss such warnings as baseless, and those who make them, as out of touch with what they feel is modern policing.

And while the statistics keep running their way, the Government and public may find it easy to be foolishly reassured.

However, experience shows that we ignore such warnings at our peril.
Recognizing that there is a far better logical method of pro-active policing is the first step.

Now that you have done so, let us explain why we will improve policing with little, but adequate financial impact in the necessary areas.

Results orientated procedures are vital to the stability of crime fighting. Just like the medical profession, technology has got to be allowed to work hand in hand with professional police personnel to reduce crime and corral the instigators.

Street level information has always been out there since time began. Old fashion policing, the beat cop, who was a local, knew his people, their traits, habits and he stored that information in his brain, for retrieval when a potential crime was reported. In most cases, he nipped in the bud with the criminal before it happen, with the clip round the ear of the local lout, who was stealing, breaking windows or doing damage.

Crime has changed and progressed to murder, drugs, gangs, rape, domestic violence, child abuse, thefts and whole list of activities that can fill a book. So much information is on the streets, one beat cop cannot cope and needs technological assistance, real time pro-active assistance.

The Tracometry Group of Companies has the circle of fire concept, powered

by BAIR Analytics, which at its proven core is:

· crime analytics

· tracking analysis

· point to point analysis

· calls for service data

· next event predictability

All elements that are required to stay on top, beating the criminal at their own widening game. 

No, we are not IBM or one of the other so called data companies. We are a group of law enforcement savvy analysis, street level, logical purveyors of required solutions.

Over 500 agencies already use our street smart analytical solutions, plus the Department of Defense (DOD), overseas agencies, and for loss prevention with Target and Walmart.

Our techniques have been proven since 1998, our expertise in crime fighting and counter terrorism goes back much further, forty four years to be precise. Our team, is second to none in the understanding of crime fighting and the necessary required tools, which have to be easy to use.

We know budgets and where monies must be spent to catch-up and the use of your limited resources, in ways you never knew could occur. It is the cost effective results we both want and are demanded by your citizens, they are the ultimate beneficiary.

It is the public that know what is going on and those frontline officers who go to work each day.

Simply, they do care and deserve the tools to do the job of protect and serve.

Talk to us and let down to earth sensibility succeed, book a webinar and fully understand why we can work together and become one crime fighting team.

WE are in the NOW and 

KEEP YOU; In the KNOW… 

Make that Appointment for the Webinar 

Call: (317) 426.0110 

Email: nick.ashton@tracometry.com

www.tracometry.com

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