The division is divided into four technical sections, as well as an administrative section that manages the front office on behalf of the Commanding Officer. The five sections are:
We hire for Systems Analyst, Database Architect, Applications Programmer, and Systems Programmer.
Admin Support and Projects Section (ASAP)
The Admin Support and Projects Section (ASAP) includes the Commanding Officer’s adjutant, the divisional Timekeeper, and budgets and projects staff. It also includes the Constitutional Policing Unit which is responsible for the support of the continued operation, development, maintenance and training of risk management applications, reports, and infrastructure. This is primarily comprised of the Department’s Early Intervention System, Training Evaluation and Management System (TEAMS II), and the systems that provide the data on Use of Force, complaints, and lawsuits. CPU establishes the requirements for the various systems, develops the business rules, and coordinates all improvements and upgrades to the systems. They also provide training on the and coordinate the distribution of risk management data to the California Department of Justice.
Applications and Reporting Section (ARS)
The Applications and Reporting Section (ARS) maintains, trains, and supports essential departmental applications, both web-based and legacy mainframe systems for the Police Department. This includes managing the interfaces between LAPD systems with City, County, Regional, State, and Federal databases. The team is also responsible for managing Business Intelligence (BI) which encompasses a wide variety of tools, applications, and methodologies that enable the Department to collect data from internal systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries against the data, and create reports, dashboards, and data visualizations to make the analytical results. This can include producing, distributing, and posting crime and arrest statistics for internal use, request through the California Public Records Act, Jeanne Cleary Disclosure of Campus Security Policy, and Campus Crime Statistics and government agencies. The Applications and Reporting Section also liaises with the California Department of Justice regarding Department statistics for reporting to the FBI.
Data Engineering Section (DES)
The Data Engineering (DES) is responsible for the continued programming, testing, and deployment and maintenance of core LAPD applications using commercial software development and data management and integration tools. DES professionals also manage the applications’ servers and the Oracle OLTP databases and analytics data warehouse, as well as the infrastructure that drive the development, testing, deployment, and production environments. DES programmers and data base administrators also use enterprise-class Extract-Load-Transform (ETL) tools to collect data from heterogeneous LAPD systems, link the data records, and format the dataset for the Business Intelligence (BI) reporting process.
DevOps Section
The DevOps Section is responsible for development, maintenance, and support of internally developed applications used within the Police Department. These include a diverse assortment of applications from the system used for officers to enter their days off requests to the Racial and Identity Profiling Act mandated stop data collection application. DevOps also includes the webmaster for the internal Department website.
Document and Media Management Section (DMMS)
The main function of Document and Media Management Section (DMMS) is to support applications and platforms related to reports, documents, and other digital media within LAPD’s operation. DMMS conducts systems maintenance and provides support for the Enterprise Content Management System used to store crime and arrest reports, personnel records, and the Homicide Library System which the Homicide Library uses to digitize the “murder books” put together by detectives during homicide investigations. They also support the Photo Management System used to store some electronic photo evidence, the inventory system used to track equipment at the geographical divisions, the Community Online Report System (CORS) that allows the public to file police reports online, and the complaint hotline used by Professional Standards Bureau for incoming public complaints. Finally, DMMS is responsible for a wireless camera program comprised of cameras placed at strategic locations across the City of Los Angeles for use as and additional tool for the prevention and investigation of crimes.