The mission of Vacaville’s Real Time Information Center is to efficiently deploy technological resources backed with evidence- backed practices to improve the service and safety for Vacaville residents and first responders.
Funding
The Real Time Information Center currently operates from three funding sources: the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) Organized Retail Theft (ORT) grant, the Capital Improvement Project (CIP), and the Police Department’s general fund.
Definition
The Real Time Information Center (RTIC) is a centralized hub that uses technology to gather and analyze information in real time. This allows officers to respond to crime events more efficiently, more deliberately, with improved operational intelligence, and with a proactive emphasis on officer, citizen, and community safety.
Goals
The primary goals of Vacaville’s Real Time Information Center are to improve Priority 1 response times and combat organized retail theft (ORT) crimes. The Vacaville Police Department also hopes to accomplish the following goals an strategies: intelligence-led policing, improve efficiently, improve officer safety, reduce liability, and maintain a safe community.
Process
Personnel assigned to Vacaville’s Real Time Information Center monitor incoming calls for service to determine where the RTIC can be of assistance, may launch a drone to offer situational awareness for officers, and augment calls for service with additional intelligence as it’s available.
Introduction to the RTIC
“The RTIC is about awareness, transparency, and delivering the right information to the right people at the right time,” said Chief of Police Chris Polen... "This center had to reflect that mission.”
The Police Department unveiled the Real Time Information Center on July 29 with a media press conference and community open house. Flock Safety captured the day.
