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State Police describe $9.8M intelligence-led policing platform that links agency data statewide
Summary
The New Mexico State Police told the committee its intelligence-led policing initiative has integrated dispatch and records data for major agencies, covers about half the state's population, and used roughly $9.8 million in C2 funding to build analytics tools that officials say make officers safer and investigations faster.
A senior official from the Department of Public Safety outlined an intelligence-led policing (ILP) program that aggregates computer-aided dispatch (CAD), records management and traffic data from multiple agencies into a statewide analytics platform.
The speaker said the project ingests siloed data from law-enforcement CAD and records systems and provides dashboards, heat maps and association graphs that help analysts and commanders identify time-and-place crime concentrations, correlate ballistic evidence and trace investigative leads more quickly than previously possible. "It's like making Google for crime data," the presenter said, describing how cross-jurisdictional links can surface investigative leads.
DPS reported the build phase used nearly $9.8 million in C2 funding and argued the system is a high-return public-safety investment that multiplies analyst and officer effectiveness. The platform currently integrates State Police data, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office and several municipal agencies; APD is partially integrated and more jurisdictions are near onboarding. The speaker estimated the system now covers roughly half the state's population and about 51% of law-enforcement officers have access.
Demonstrations shown to the committee included a consolidated person-history "baseball card," NIBIN ballistics linkages across jurisdictions and heat maps for patrol deployment. The presenter said the system also helps reveal reporting-data quality issues (e.g., mis-tagged citation locations) for corrective action.
On costs and governance, the presenter said the state funds integration for smaller agencies so that participating jurisdictions gain reciprocal access to the aggregated data; larger agencies that previously deployed analytics keep their existing systems while benefiting from integration. The DPS official said next budget requests will cover transition of the platform from build-phase C2 funding into ongoing operating support.
Legislators asked about officer safety, data access from officers in vehicles, license-plate-reader (LPR) retention and cybersecurity. The presenter said officers can access the platform from car computers or phones (subject to operational safety), retention policies for LPR data remain agency-dependent (ranges discussed 30—60 or up to 180 days), and DPS has invested in a CJIS modernization program (cited $28 million) to harden systems.
The presenter offered deeper demonstrations to legislators and analysts under CJIS access controls and said the program intends to expand to more agencies and deliver public-facing dashboards to improve transparency.
