Public safety is shaped by more than what appears in a crime report. Every day, officers engage with people and places in ways that provide critical context, long before an incident becomes a statistic. These interactions often hold the key to understanding emerging challenges, community needs and operational priorities.

The ForceMetrics Velocity™ Platform brings these everyday interactions together to create a clearer, more complete picture of what’s happening across a community. By connecting field interviews and other interaction data with people, locations, and outcomes, agencies gain insight that goes beyond isolated events and toward meaningful patterns.

Seeing the Full Story

Many impactful public safety moments never result in formal reports. Conversations, welfare checks, trespassing warnings, and community contacts all shape long-term outcomes. When this information is connected and accessible, agencies can better understand what happens before, during, and around incidents. 

This added context helps leaders and frontline personnel see the full story (rather than simply individual data points) so they can make more informed decisions rooted in real-world conditions. 

From Patterns to Proactive Response

Recurring interactions often signal emerging issues well before they appear in traditional metrics. Whether it’s repeated contacts at a specific location or ongoing engagement with vulnerable individuals, these patterns reveal where attention and resources are truly needed. With Velocity’s connected records, including field interviews, agencies can spend less time searching for information and more time acting on it. Officers, chiefs and analysts can identify these trends early and respond more effectively, shifting from reactive responses to proactive, confident, and informed strategies.

Supporting Community-Focused Policing

Many agencies use interaction data to better understand homelessness-related encounters, mental health-related, and other non-criminal demands on public safety resources. When this information is visible within the Velocity platform, leaders gain insight into how officers are engaging, where support services may be needed, and how to collaborate more effectively with city partners. 

Similarly, managing banned notices and trespassing restrictions becomes more efficient when officers can quickly see relevant history tied to individuals and locations. This reduces guesswork and promotes consistent, fair enforcement.

Strengthening Public Safety Insights

By integrating interaction data into Insights, Velocity adds depth to traditional reporting. Agencies can better identify locations requiring sustained attention and recognize trends linked to social and community factors. 

The result is a stronger Insights platform that connects activity, context, and outcomes to support smarter resource allocation and long-term planning. 

Making the Unseen Visible

Public safety is shaped by everyday interactions that reflect community needs, emerging risks, and opportunities for early intervention. By bringing these interactions into a unified, connected view, ForceMetrics Velocity helps agencies transform context into clarity, and clarity into action.

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