Protecting and Serving the Dixfield community.

The following pages provide information and statistics about what officers at the Dixfield Police Department have been doing. The information provided is annual, the most recent year being updated monthly (if available). Links provided offer information for all years from 1999 through 2004.

 

Check out these pages for a good view of how many patrol miles are driven, how many criminal cases are initiated, how many incidents* are completed and much, much more.

 

* An incident is any official police activity that requires the use of on-duty time by a police officer.

Index Crimes: What are they?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) compiles crime statistics from agencies across the United States. In an attempt to make the statistics somewhat uniform across many jurisdictions nationwide, they have defined some basic criminal activity that tends to be a problem wherever you go.

Index Crimes are the major crime categories that are tracked by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. These include:

1.         Criminal Homicide

2.         Forcible Rape

3.         Robbery

4.         Aggravated Assault

5.         Burglary

6.         Larceny (Theft)

7.         Motor Vehicle Theft, and

8.         Arson.

These offenses were chosen for reporting and statistics-gathering because they are the crimes most likely to be reported and which occur with sufficient frequency to provide an adequate basis for comparison. (Embezzlement does not readily come to the attention of police and kidnapping occurs infrequently.) These chosen crimes also tend to be serious either by nature or by volume of occurrence.

The accompanying charts demonstrate the fact that criminal activity as tracked by the FBI remains relatively constant while all police activity is constantly rising. Thus, the vast majority of all police activity is either non-criminal or at least not a part of the Index Crimes as listed to the left.