Action Steps
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Purpose
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| Planning Stage
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| * Involve key leaders
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Provide essential backing to secure funding support
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| * Identify problems for crime mapping
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Create current needs assessment.
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| * Develop partnerships
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Acquire help from others already using GIS
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| * Plan strategically
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Plan for present and future GIS goals
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| * Establish a leadership board
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Define areas of responsibility, resolve conflicts, and set goals for the GIS function
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| Start-up stage
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| * Hire and/or train technical staff
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Integrate crime analysis and GIS capabilities
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| * Acquire adequate hardware and software
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Provide enough power and functionality to meet future demands
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| * Form cooperative agreements
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Encourage collecting and sharing information with all units pertinent to GIS mission
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| Operational stage
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| * Be compatible with existing municipal GIS systems
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Coordinate and combine databases
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| * Invest in GIS training
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Support investment in human resources
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| * Implement pin mapping
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Create early success for GIS, build demand for future functions
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| Stabilization stage
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| * Integrate with other databases
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Produce overlays with informaiton from multiple agencies
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| * Hire/train GIS coordinator with computer and communication skills
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Meet needs of management, end-users, and local councils/boards
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| Expansion stage
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| * Make program assessment permanent
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Assure ongoing program evaluation justifies GIS growth and budgetary expansion
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| * Develop expanded resources
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Obtain support of key decision-makers while remaining professinally neutral
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| * Develop broader networks
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Network staff and keep end-users informed
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