There is only one city in the country that can say it is the Nation’s Capital – Washington, D.C. Given that distinction, the Metropolitan Police Department is the premiere law enforcement organization in the city. We receive over 22 million visitors a year, have almost 700,000 residents, and 21,000 private business. The Department consists of more than 4,200 members: approximately 3,550 sworn members and over 650 civilian employees. We are one of the most diverse and highly trained departments in the country. We have the honor of safeguarding and protecting not only our nation’s residents, but also people from all over the world.

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) offers an attractive benefits package. The benefits package includes competitive compensation, health insurance, prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, short and long term disability and life insurance, as well a strong retirement benefit and saving options. Employees are also eligible for our employer contributed 401a plan after one year of employment. Additional perks such as discounts on wireless carriers, gym memberships, amusement park tickets and much more! Additional information can be found at: DCHR Benefits

This position is located in the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Homeland Security Bureau (HSB), Joint Strategic and Analysis Command Center (JSTACC), Operational Analysis Branch (OAB), Research and Analysis Section (RAS) and serves as the supervisor over operational crime analysis functions in support of the department’s public safety mission. The position also plays a primary coordinating role in advancing MPD's analytical capabilities and capacity.

The incumbent will be responsible for the following:

• Plans, prioritizes, assigns, supervises and reviews the work of staff engaged in tactical and operational law enforcement analysis and reporting activities; establishes methods and objectives for providing analytical services; and identifies resources needed.
• Supervises staff members engaged in the delivery of crime analysis information and investigative analysis products, to include providing leadership and guidance in building an analytical methodology or approach; determining appropriate data and data gathering techniques; analyzing large datasets, reviewing results and recommendations; and providing quality control.
• Leads the team in studying crime reports, arrest reports, police calls for service, and other data and intelligence to identify emerging crime patterns, trends, series, and/or problems; making inferences in relation to these patterns or issues; managing the development of robust analyses and products to inform MPD response and/or strategy; and providing data-driven recommendations to support action.
• Oversees and implements law enforcement analysis, reporting activities, including collection and analysis of a variety of sources from calls for service, crime, arrest, census, demographic, and other related data to display informational analysis to MPD leadership.
• Provides recommendations to leadership to improve processes, streamline operations, and coordinates with MPD's units to advance analytics and data quality.
• Develops and/or manages the development of timely and accurate products, briefings, presentations, visualizations, and graphics to deliver this information clearly in an appropriate format for the audience.
• Distributes and balances the workload among employees in accordance with established work flow or job specialization, assures timely accomplishment of the assigned work, and amends or rejects work not meeting established standards.
• Ensures the proper organization, personnel, and resource allocation, implementation, documentation, reporting, inspection, and delivery of the projects/tasks assigned to the unit. Evaluates employee performance and recommend promotions, reassignments, adverse actions, and other similar actions.
• Develops and maintains statistical forecasting models and analysis to assess current crime patterns and work to anticipate future trends. Manages the preparation of statistics, data queries, and/or maps when needed.
• Provides proactive and innovative solutions to complex analytical challenges. Initiates new reports and other analytics products and services in anticipation of requests or suggested trends.
• Utilizes data science techniques, data mining, crime mapping, statistics, research methods, desktop publishing, charting, presentation skills, and critical thinking. Oversees the analysis and information collected, developed, and constructed from GIS for crime tracking and investigative activities.
• Develops and continuously improves RAS standard operating procedures to include analytical models and the latest analytical techniques. Develops and ensures the proper implementation law enforcement research and analysis policies, guidelines, and standard operating procedures. Researches and employs best practices.
• Conducts audits and reviews Information Technology systems to ensure consistency of pertinent data usage and interpretation.
• Provides written and oral reports and analyses for executive management's review and information that address work accomplishments, recommendations, deficiencies, and issues and concerns; and to external organizations as appropriate.
• Serves as a partner with various units within the department, other District agencies, Federal government law enforcement officials, and local law enforcement officials. Works with units within the department to develop analytical support that allows unit officials to craft effective strategies and tactics to address crime and disorder.
• Manages the proper dissemination of data and information to internal units and to outside agencies, including the Mayor and Council.
• Ensures that subordinate staff responds in a timely manner to requests for information and documents, such as through FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and from the Mayor, Council, and external persons and organizations.
• Represents the MPD on internal and external task forces established to review and resolve public safety problems.
• Hears and resolves informal complaints from employees and refers the more serious complaints to a higher level of authority.
• Identifies the developmental and training needs of staff members and connects them with the needed resources, trainings, etc.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Licensures, Certifications and other requirements

N/A.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree required. Master's Degree strongly preferred.

Work Experience

Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the MS-12 grade level, or its non-District equivalent, gained from the public or private sector. Specialized experience for this position includes, but is not limited to: data analytical experience; experience comparing local and national crime statistics using common data standards, codebooks, and data dictionaries; developing and managing the implementation of analytical methodologies and approaches to address complex challenges and tasks; conducting temporal analysis (i.e., calculate and analyze short and long term series, patterns, trends) to make forecasts and predictions regarding crime trends and series; analyzing qualitative and quantitative data using calculations such as frequencies, percent change, cross-tabulations, measures of central tendency (i.e., mean, median, mode), measures of variation (i.e., range, standard deviation, variance) and correlations; and experience supervising others.

One year of prior management/leadership experience required.

Work Environment

Work location is in an office environment. Work is sedentary and may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel and attendance at meeting and conferences away from the work site and carrying light items, such as laptops, papers, books, small parts, and driving an automobile.

Other Significant Factors

This position operates within the confines of a 24/7 operation. Incumbent of this position is required to provide after-hours on call technical support including weekends and holidays. Incumbent may also be subjected to rotating shifts, weekend work and changes in days off.

A background investigation, to include a criminal, traffic and credit check are required for positions with the Metropolitan Police Department.

The incumbent is required to possess and maintain a valid motor vehicle operator’s permit.

This position is “At Will”. At will employment applies to the Management Supervisory Service (MSS). All positions and appointments in the MSS serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority and may be terminated at any time with or without cause. This position is not in a collective bargaining unit.

The District of Columbia Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer: all qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination, which is also prohibited. In addition, harassmentbased on any of the above-protected categories is prohibited.

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