b'THE HRPS IS CONSTANTLY EXAMININGHOW NEW TECHNOLOGY CAN BE USED TO PRODUCE STRATEGIC BUSINESS OUTCOMES.performance and predict and manageand properly categorizing video is aSEMI-AUTOMATIC user behaviour. complex task and the analytics team During the planning stages for thedeveloped a suite of rules that wereSTRIKER FIRED programmed to automatically sweep ICCS rollout,the analytics team wasand flag video events for correction.PISTOLaskedtoestimatethedatastorageThese errors were offered to adminis-needsoftheproject.Usingdatatrators to aid in corrections and were@BDTCANADAcollectedduringtheoriginalpilotused in developing time estimates for phase,asimulationwascreatedtocorrecting particular rule violations, as estimate video storage requirementswell as the frequency of each type of for ICCS-equipped vehicles. The simu- error over time. lation needed to take into account the frequency of incidents that generateThesimulationwasultimately video events and the distribution ofable to inform us that a full-time staff file sizes generated by each video pro- member would be needed to ensure duced. The simulation also needed todataintegritymovingforward.InAPX Combattake into account the variable retentionfact, the number of hours needed to periods for each kind of categorizedaddress all errors made during video videoandhowthiscombinationofcapture was found to be so significant inputs and outputs would balance outthat it informed our choice to develop over time. Using a custom-developedseveralweb-basedself-servicetools Monte Carlo simulation, tens of thou- to allow officers to correct their own sands of 20-year simulations were runerrors.Distributingtheworkloadin to understand potential data storagethisfashionwouldnotbelikelytoAPX FDEmodels and how they would projecthave been considered if the analytics intothefuture.Thesesimulationsteamhadnotbeenconsultedin were able to demonstrate the scale tothe beginning.which the ICCS program would growData Integrityas more ICCS-equipped vehicles wereTOP ERGONOMICSbroughtonline,andhelpedinformThe analytics team was also engagedTACTICAL FUNCTIONAL DESIGNdecisionsonvideoresolutionandtomonitortheICCSsystemforper- MAXIMUM MODULARITYretention periods.formance issues, in addition to dataSAFE STRIKER DEACTIVATIONintegrity.Thetechnologypowering As an officer ends a particular videoICCS is complex and consists of many recording, they are required to classifyinteractingparts,andifaparticular itstype.Examplesincludecriminalvehicle fails, it may not be immediately occurrences and traffic offences. It isobvious to system administrators. The these classifications in particular whichanalytics team was able to integrate drive business processes around reten- asystemofeventchecksintoa tion and routing to court. If a video isdashboardtoolthatwouldidentify incorrectly classified, it runs the risk oftechnical errors and prompt the ICCS not being held for the specified timeteam for further action. For example,WWW.STOEGERCANADA.CA/DEFENCEperiodofmakingittoitsintendedwhenanequippedvehiclehasntDMACDONALD@STOEGERCANADA.CAdisclosurelocation.Thesimulationoffloadedvideoinsevenormore was also used to estimate the numberdays, a flag is raised in a web-based of employee hours needed per monthdashboard. Given that ICCS-equipped PROUD SUPPORTERS OF torectifyvideoclassificationerrorsvehicles operate 24 hours a day andWOUNDED WARRIORS CANADAwiththeICCSsystem.Capturingare expected to offload video at theThe Official Publication of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police19'