Course descriptions
“I really appreciated the instructor's attitude toward helping his students grow and expand their abilities in this field."
- Bair Software Student
Analyst Training Curriculum:
Course 101 - Fundamentals of Crime Analysis
Course 102 - Data Management
Course 103 - Tactical Crime Analysis using ATAC
Course 201 - Crime Mapping and Analysis using ArcGIS
Course 203 - Criminal Intelligence Analysis
Course 301 - Forecasting Serial Events
Bair Software has developed a training curriculum directly focused on crime analysis and pattern analysis in law enforcement and defense. The curriculum takes analysts through fundamentals of crime analysis, managing and improving crime data for analysis, and advanced spatial analysis and mapping over a series of week-long courses taught by former analysts and officers.
Fundamentals of Crime Analysis
This course focuses on the basic terms, concepts, and techniques of crime analysis as a means to assist in developing a crime analysis program. Taught by experienced crime analysts using a combination of theory and hands-on practice, this course provides a solid base on which to further a career in crime analysis.
Course Level: 101
Difficulty: Basic
Course Length: 5 Days
Data Management
This course will provide students with an in-depth look at various data types and tools used by analysts to create, manage, manipulate and query data. Students will master methods for searching, retrieving, mining, and manipulating data from public safety Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Record Management System (RMS) repositories.
Course Level: 102
Difficulty: Basic
Course Length: 5 Days
Tactical Crime Analysis using ATAC
Learn all of ATAC’s functions from the application’s developer. After a quick review of the basics, students will delve deep into SQL and querying, Regular Expressions, Temporal Analysis, Statistics, and finally, Spatial Analysis using ATAC. The lessons will use real-world data and situations experienced by crime analysts and investigators.
Course Level: 103
Difficulty: Basic
Course Length: 5 Days
Crime Mapping and Analysis using ArcGIS
This course provides students with a complete understanding of the fundamentals of crime mapping. Using the “Watch-Follow-Do” adult learning method, and expanding on the award-winning Department of Justice CMAP curriculum, students will use their own data in addition to training data as they actually master the techniques they are shown during this comprehensive course.
Course Level: 201
Difficulty: Moderate
Course Length: 5 Days
Criminal Intelligence Analysis
This hands-on course will introduce students to the basic principles and techniques of intelligence analysis as applied to the world of professional law enforcement. Students will learn the legal and logical context of intelligence in policing, as well as the types of intelligence, process models, analytical thinking, and reasoning methods. Geographic mapping of intelligence-related data and timeline-plots will demonstrate how to analyze and forecast activity spatiotemporally. Students will learn how to perform Red Team assessments and will practice in an interactive environment. Upon completion of this comprehensive course, students will be well-versed in the fundamentals of intelligence analysis as applied in the context of law enforcement, corrections, and counter terrorism.
Course Level: 203
Difficulty: Moderate
Course Length: 5 Days
Forecasting Serial Events
This course expands on the award-winning US Department of Justice CMAP curriculum developed by the same instructors, focusing on the next generation of techniques for tactical and operational crime analysis. Using their own data in addition to data from several well-known serial events, students will master advanced spatial, temporal and statistical techniques to resolve serial events.
Course Level: 301
Difficulty: Advanced
Course Length: 5 Days
Complete training curriculum developed by analysts for analysts
