1. www.hertsdirect.org Partnership Working – The Role of MIDAS Chris Rowland, MIDAS System Manager, Hertfordshire County Council

2. www.hertsdirect.org What are we going to cover? MIDAS Information sharing Partnership working Vision and intention for the future

3. www.hertsdirect.org MIDAS Multi-agency Information & Data Access Service Crime & Disorder Act 1998 – duty to share information Partnership funded, staff employed by HCC Off-line & on-line service utilising event/incident data Standardised, systematic, value-added, accessible

4. www.hertsdirect.org Information Sharing County lead, sourcing/negotiating/educating, cultural shift Police (direct access), County, Districts, Fire, Neighbourhood Watch, etc. District/Borough anti-social behaviour information Strategic Assessments

5. www.hertsdirect.org Partnership Working Local Area Agreement Fear / perception Baselines and performance monitoring Identifying & ranking areas of need Resource targeting Evaluation

6. www.hertsdirect.org Street Warden Drug Paraphernalia Finds

7. www.hertsdirect.org Fire & Rescue Service - Deliberate Fires

8. www.hertsdirect.org Districts & Boroughs – Perception Surveys

9. www.hertsdirect.org Neighbourhood Watch and Police

10. www.hertsdirect.org Children, Schools & Families

11. www.hertsdirect.org Vision and Intention for the Future Lateral thinking across LAA blocks creating more chances for multiple ‘hits’ Better visualisation and analysis between multi- agency data to identify and interpret correlations & connections Formation of Community Information Unit

12. www.hertsdirect.org Community Information Unit Hertfordshire Observatory Partnership Analysts MIDAS GIS / Mapping Demographics & Economics Vision and Intention for the Future

13. www.hertsdirect.org Improvement program: –Embedded, sustainable and automatic information sharing processes –Improved content –Improved access and display tools –Default source for community information Vision and Intention for the Future

14. www.hertsdirect.org Vision and Intention for the Future MIDAS prototype on-line map display CIU multi-choice map tool

15. www.hertsdirect.org thank you