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Crime Incident Summaries

Monday, February 16th, 2009

For all crime incidents, Rochester911.com shows you the date, time, address, case number, and classification of call that happened on the map. Now we have gone one step further and tied together some call summary information from the crime prevention website Cop Talk Live.

Notes example

Every weekday, around 9AM, the crime prevention team sends out information about a select handful of the previous days calls for service. Thefts, burglaries, and robberies are the main types of incidents that will get some additional summary information to explain what happened. Not all calls for service will have a summary note available.

You can tell which calls will have a note by looking at the sidebar (image to left) and seeing a little note picture next to that call. You can hover your mouse over that note picture to get a quick summary in the mouseover, or you can click that call and see it show up on the map in full detail.

These call summary notes from the crime prevention team provide very useful information to give some context to the incident that occurred on the map. If you have additional questions about crime incidents in Rochester, you can contact Crime Prevention within the Rochester Police Department.

For questions regarding calls within the Olmsted Sheriff’s Department jurisdiction, you can contact the Sheriff’s Office Crime Prevention department.

Minnesota Conviction Search Available

Monday, January 26th, 2009

A new tool is available on Rochester911.com, allowing you to search the Minnesota Criminal Conviction database! This allows anyone, for free, to do a background search on a name and see if that person has been convicted of anything in the State of Minnesota in the past 15 years.

You can get to this page by clicking on the blue tab above labeled “Person Search”, or by going directly to the website http://www.rochester911.com/person-search/.

Minnesota Criminal Conviction Search

You can use this as a tool to help ensure people you are dealing with don’t have an unsavory history, or ensure the people you trust your children / loved ones with have a clean past. You can never be too careful when it comes to your safety and the safety of your family.

Remember though, this is just a repository of public information. Before anyone is denied employment, housing, or any other privilege based on this information, they should be afforded the opportunity to challenge the correctness or accuracy of this information. Fingerprints are the only sure way to verify an identity and tell if a person does or does not match up with the convictions on record.

Give the person search feature a try, and as always we welcome comments / suggestions on our new feature at info@rochester911.com.

Citizen Crime Reporting Website

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Just recently, the Rochester Police Department and the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office have introduced a new webpage where any citizen can submit a non-emergency crime report online! (Of course, if you ever have an emergency, call 9-1-1)

Rochester City Police and Olmsted County Sheriff Citizen Reporting Website

Online Citizen Crime Reporting

For select types of crimes, you can fill out this online form, and based on the information you submit you may be contacted by an Officer/Deputy or Investigator. Hopefully this will allow people to more easily communicate information to the police and help them solve some of the ongoing issues in our neighborhoods.

A link to this citizen reporting website will be incorporated into the Rochester911 incident map, to allow anyone with information about crimes that have been committed to click a quick link and submit information to law enforcement. If you have any questions about this Online Citizen Crime Reporting tool, you can contact the Rochester Police Department, or the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office.

Welcome to Rochester911.com

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

This is a brand new website dedicated to providing the Olmsted County community with easy access to information regarding emergency calls for service in their neighborhoods.

The website is in “beta” mode, with most of the Incident Map features being ready to use, but other reporting and searching features still being worked on.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you find this website very useful, and stop back again to check out the new features coming soon!