The Importance of Data Capture Programs for Public Safety Agencies

Written by KOVA Corp

Technology enables us to capture more data than we ever have before, but the key to taking advantage of so much data is knowing how to analyze it and apply that analysis in a useful way. Public safety agencies can use data capture programs to analyze data in order to find patterns that will enable them to prevent disasters before they happen.

There are four main ways public safety agencies use data: social media monitoring, drawing connections between cases, creating crime prediction models, and cybersecurity. In order to see how data analytics help prevent disasters, it’s important to also understand what data capture programs and analytics are.

Data Capture Programs

Data capture programs record data in the form of videos, photos, and sound on your smartphone. Once you have the data on your phone, the data capture program allows you to quickly label, categorize, store, and transmit the data securely and easily.

This is important in the public safety industry because emergency workers don’t always have the time to get back to the office before they’re called out to the next emergency. A data capture program that allows them to upload and securely send photos or videos while still at the scene of an accident is a huge time saver.

Data Analytics

Data analytics involves taking the data that’s been captured and cataloged and giving it structure. The data is analyzed to find patterns by sorting it, searching it, and making it more usable. The key to obtaining actionable data is knowing what you want to use the data for. Applying data analytics can help keep us safe from threats, but the key is knowing what to do with the results of the analysis and then taking action.

How Data Capture and Data Analytics Transform Business

Data analytics has the potential to transform businesses by finding patterns in large volumes of data. A good example of this is credit card fraud. By detecting patterns in the data and observing how rampant identity theft was in the form of credit card fraud, the banking industry implemented PIN and chip technology as well as new ways of identifying fraudulent charges.

By providing more information to businesses, data capture and analytics allows for more informed and better decision making when it comes to making policies and protecting the public but nothing changes if no action is taken so make sure you have a plan.

Data capture programs can completely revolutionize the way your public safety employees do their jobs. It will make them more efficient and provide better and more accurate data that can be used for future decision making.

KOVA’s public safety solutions allow emergency responders to share vital information quickly and easily, making it possible to record and analyze data gathered. The Silent Partner App is cell phone and mobile recording software that can capture text messages, video, phone, and photos as well as catalog and upload them easily and efficiently.

Silent Partner will truly change the way your team does their jobs. To learn more about how KOVA can help you implement a data capture program in your public safety agency, contact us today.

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