SMPD Investigator

The South Milwaukee Police Department is a medium sized suburban department within the greater Milwaukee metro area.  As a part of the largest metro area in the State of Wisconsin, communication with other law enforcement agencies can be good and thorough, but also can simply not reach as far as an individual investigation requires. The CAR program taught our department additional skills for analyzing our own internal data by pulling from reports and computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) info and then using Excel to learn what the data said. We learned how to organize large amounts of crime data, disseminate that data with the corresponding analysis. South Milwaukee PD also learned to better utilize avenues of communication we already had with other law enforcement agencies. We also learned how to create clean and polished products to get buy in from our own officers and investigators at other agencies.