Police Transparency can be used to share authoritative information and communicate engagement efforts that build trust with the public and community stakeholders.
In some communities, inequitable policing practices have eroded the public’s trust and challenged the legitimacy of local law enforcement agencies. As a result, many agencies are seeking new ways to improve their relationship with the communities they serve. The larger reform efforts are helping law enforcement agencies improve transparency and demonstrate accountable police policies. At the same time, agencies are also engaging the community more deeply and using their feedback to drive policing priorities and enforcement policies. Police Transparency is typically implemented by law enforcement agencies that want to increase transparency, grow public trust, and improve relationships with the communities they serve.
The Police Transparency solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you share information openly with the public, promote your agency’s work, demonstrate accountability when force is used, illustrate how workforce recruiting reflects the diversity of the community, and engage the public to improve policing services.
Deploy the solution
This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.
See Deploying a solution for more information.
Requirements
Police Transparency requires the following:
- ArcGIS Online
- ArcGIS Hub Premium (optional)
- ArcGIS Pro 3.3 or later
Information products
Police Transparency includes the following information products:
Item | Description | Minimum user type |
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Police Transparency | An ArcGIS Hub site used by the public to understand community crime conditions, explore patterns of police use of force, learn about the diversity of their police force, access open data, and discover opportunities for police-community engagement. | Not required |
Community Calls for Service Explorer | An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by the public to explore calls for service in their community and around areas of interest. | Not required |
Community Crime Explorer | An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by the public to explore crime conditions in their community and around areas of interest. | Not required |
Use of Force Summary Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to understand overall trends in use of force incidents. | Not required |
Use of Force by Subject | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to explore characteristics of the subjects of use of force incidents. | Not required |
Use of Force by Officer | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to explore characteristics of the officers involved in use of force incidents. | Not required |
Police Personnel Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to understand the demographic composition of the police workforce. | Not required |
Year-to-date Crime Statistics Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to explore statistical trends by crime type. | Not required |
My Community Officer | An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by the public to learn about the community policing officer responsible for an area of interest and how to contact them. | Not required |
Police Interaction Survey | An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by the public to provide feedback about their interactions with police personnel. | Not required |
Community Safety and Police Satisfaction Survey | An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by the public to report their perceptions of community safety and holistic performance of their police agency. | Not required |
Law Enforcement Data Management | An ArcGIS Pro project used by crime analysts to automate data imports from records management or computer-aided dispatch systems, which helps crime analysts free up time typically spent on data preparation. | Creator |
When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.
Release notes
The following are the release notes:
Version | Description |
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3.0 (July 2025) |
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2.2 (Nov 2023) |
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2.1 (Mar 2023) |
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2.0 (Nov 2022) |
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1.0 (Nov 2020) |
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