This program will build upon a college diploma, university degree, or complement the training provided by police services to individuals who are currently serving, or who aspire to launch a career in the emerging field of crime analysis. You will develop an understanding of data storage, analysis, programming, statistics, communication, and foundations of data management within the context of policing. You will gain the skills to extract meaningful insights from large and complex data sets to support evidence based decision-making using a wide range of data and technologies. You will test and apply your knowledge through exercises focusing on critical thinking and problem-solving skills and learn to work as a member of a police major case management team.

In the program, you will gain the skills to extract meaningful insights from very large and complex data sets to support organizational decision‐making. You will learn how to collect, curate, manipulate, encode, and store data sets so they can be analyzed and mined and reused or re-purposed to solve challenges and predict trends. The program combines crime analytics focused courses with computer science and technology, research, and communications courses. This enables students to find or gather data, use a wide variety of tools to analyze it, and share results through various forms of communication from reports to dashboards and infographics.

In this program, students will develop an understanding of policing, intelligence, police data management, dashboards, spatial analysis, programming, statistics, within the context of the emerging field of crime analytics. The knowledge gained will be tested and applied through exercises focusing on critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Students will learn to work as a member of an interdisciplinary analytics team. This enables students to gather data, use a wide variety of tools to analyze it, and share results through various forms of communication ranging from reports to dashboards and infographics.

Program Strengths
This program leverages and builds on existing experience and creativity in problem-solving enabling students to become strong, effective analysts who are skilled at bridging the gap between data, industry, and technology.
Students are exposed to a variety of theory, hands-on, applied, and experiential learning opportunities that prepare them to meet the needs of current job markets.
A variety of workshops, community engagements, co-curricular activities, field trips, and guest speakers provide students with opportunities to begin networking and collaborating in the analytics and related fields.
Program Highlights
1 year - 3 semesters (2 academic semesters and 1 semester of Work Integrated Learning)
Capstone project in final semester (7 week capstone course)
HyFlex learning model utilized throughout the entire program
Focus on analysis utilizing a wide array of tools including advanced ArcGIS, Microsoft Office and Excel, PowerBI, Python programming, R statistics, and SQL database to provide a versatile and in-demand analytical skill-set
Extra-curricular and additional credential opportunities to enhance your analytical skills, portfolio, and resume

Crime analysts work for a variety of law enforcement, intelligence, research, government, and a variety of other organizations. Crime analysts also work with the financial sector in areas such as private investigation, insurance investigation and fraud investigation. Common tasks involve analyzing intelligence, predictive modeling, mining data from primary and secondary sources, analyzing and interpreting results, pinpointing and predicting trends, providing concise reports, and designing, creating and maintaining databases.

Graduates are prepared for employment opportunities as:

Crime Analyst
Data Analyst
Fraud Analyst
Compliance Analyst
Intelligence Analyst
Security Analyst
Forensic Data Analyst
Financial Analyst