Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Annual reports released

All three of Lincoln's public safety agencies have posted their 2011 annual reports online now. These are all chock-full of information and statistics concerning our public safety activities. The reports are all in .pdf format, and fairly large, so be patient if you have a slow connection.

Lincoln Fire & Rescue Department
Lincoln Police Department
Lincoln Communications Center

9 comments:

Steve said...

Nice looking work on the LPD report. How often do they find the need to repel with a K9 unit? :)

Tom Casady said...

Steve,

Less than once every 38 years, as I recall.

Steve said...

That's about what I would have guessed. It never hurts to be prepared, though.

Anonymous said...

However, the fact remains, we CAN repel with a K9.

Steve said...

I guess I'm not the only one who didn't think about the spelling; I was too amazed by the picture. :)

Anonymous said...

Steve-Repelling with a Police Harley is much more challenging but it CAN be done....

Usually preceded by shouting "LOOK OUT BELOW!!!!!"

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Steve said...

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Yes, I suppose it might be the quickest way down from the top floor of a parking garage, or perhaps to get to the Haymarket from the Harris Overpass. Watch out for the pigeon poo!

Mike said...

Good stuff, glad the city publishes these reports.
Would like to see more metrics published in the LFR report. I assume they are tracking more than they are publishing for the public. The LPD report comes across very transparent, I like it a lot.
It would be nice too if the report art designers could add a 3rd dimension (silos) for the maps to show your repeat customers.
Say there is a call for Hazmat and two engines, one ladder truck, and a crew cab pickup work the scene. How many Hazmat incidents get counted for reporting purposes?

Tom Casady said...

Mike,

LFR has data for both individual unit dispatches (pages 12-13), and incidents (pages 17 and 24). On your hypothetical example, that is one incident with four units dispatched, and both of those numbers are reported.