Minette Police Department will soon implement a new law-enforcement

technique.

City Council Monday, Bay Minette Police Chief Michael Rowland

announced that the law-enforcement agency would soon begin

“intelligence-led policing.”

we do our job,” he told the council.

law-enforcement in Bay Minette will be “data driven” by using

incident reports and additional data to find patterns in criminal

behavior with the use of a new computer program.

effectively,” the police chief said.

Bay Minette police will use data to determine such patterns as the

time of day or days of the week crimes occur.

of 10 new crime-mapping systems that will be tested in the

state.

department in Baldwin County looking at this,” Rowland said.

last week’s Project Safe Neighborhood meeting, he explained that

criminal analysis is part of a natural evolution for the police

force.

moved to having computers in police cars,” Rowland said.

of acquiring software for the system, the chief said, citing other

additions in the works.

position in the police department of criminal analyst,” Rowland

said.

system should be up in about two weeks.