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Harness the Power of GIS for Public Safety Esri's GIS solutions provide intuitive and comprehensive integrated public safety applications for presenting and analyzing information in support of better decision- making and more effective emergency response. GIS helps emergency planners, rescue personnel, police officers and others to better understand spatial relationships to mitigate reoccurrence or further escalation. GIS plays a vital role in locating where the incident occurred, determining jurisdictional boundaries, maintaining situational awareness, providing historical data, dispatching the appropriate assets and improving response time, while satisfying the needs of the broader public safety community for information access and data sharing. Emergency Management Emergency Response (E-911, CAD, & AVL) Policing & Law Enforcement Fire Protection & Wildfire Management 2 Esri Canada | Harness the Power of GIS for Public Safety GIS improves emergency management and preparedness by cataloguing and managing large volumes of data, and creating situational awareness by linking people, processes and information together in a geographic context. GIS is used to monitor and respond to events, track resources, conduct damage assessment and prepare status reports. GIS integration with E-911, Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems and Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) technology provide dispatchers and first responders with the ability to get on the scene rapidly. The mapping interface provides a visual reference of 911 calls, while an integrated CAD identifies the closest asset and fastest route for response. GIS turns information into actionable intelligence thereby assisting police in making critical decisions every day. Whether allocating response zones, supporting field investigations, selecting best observation points or analyzing crimes for emerging patterns, GIS transforms the way police protect and serve communities by getting the right data into the right hands. GIS provides the tools to effectively and efficiently deploy firefighting resources when and where needed. While en route or on scene, firemen or wildfire crews can get access to location- based information such as floor plans, utility grid networks, fire hydrant locations, hazardous material contents, local maps and aerial imagery to better plan their response.