OAC used by South Yorkshire Police

The South Yorkshire Police (SYP) have created a force specific version of OAC within ESRIs ArcGIS using some basic manipulation of the Cluster Names and Yorkshire-Humberside Regional Membership Data spreadsheets.

These are essentially the Output Area geography boundaries with appended OAC attribution, symbolised into super group, group and sub group definitions. Analysts can now use these new layers within their ArcGIS mapping templates as additional data sources to assist in the development of neighbourhood profiling.

They are looking to make the Cluster Photos and Spider Diagrams available as hyperlinks from ArcGIS to provide more integrated access to the original information. The OAC data has been highlighted as an excellent candidate for publication on the next phase of the SYP Intranet Mapping Service.

The OAC data is now being introduced into analytical reports to show how recorded crime and anti-social behaviour occurs and affects different members of society in different ways. It is important to try to understand why people become victims and how the police can give the best service to members of the public. OAC data can be analysed against a suite of other data sets available to our organisation.

SYP welcome any sort of exchange with other similar organisations who are looking at implementing the OAC data sets to help with their work.

Gary Birchall M.A., F.R.G.S. Crime Management Unit Analyst,
gary.birchall@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

Mark Hamilton B.Sc., M.Sc. Force G.I.S. Manager,
mark.hamilton@southyorks.pnn.police.uk