PDI: Cincinnati Police Calls for Service (CAD) with Dispatch and Response Times

Daily-updated records from the Cincinnati Police Department's Computer Aided Dispatch system capture all calls for service, including 911, alarms, and non-emergency calls. The dataset includes dispatch, arrival, and closed timestamps, incident types, and anonymized location data for each event. Data is processed by the City's Office of Performance and Data Analytics, which adds administrative areas like neighborhoods and police districts.

Use Cases

• Analyze response time efficiency using DISPATCH_TIME_PRIMARY_UNIT, ARRIVAL_TIME_PRIMARY_UNIT, and CLOSED_TIME_INCIDENT.
• Map incident frequency and type by neighborhood using CPD_NEIGHBORHOOD, SNA_NEIGHBORHOOD, LONGITUDE_X, LATITUDE_X, and INCIDENT_TYPE_DESC.
• Model incident priority classification using PRIORITY, PRIORITY_COLOR, INCIDENT_TYPE_ID, and DISPOSITION_TEXT.
• Assess police district and beat workload using DISTRICT, BEAT, and CREATE_TIME_INCIDENT for temporal analysis.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near-real-time operational data.
• Includes granular timestamps for dispatch, arrival, and incident closure.
• Geocoded and enriched with administrative boundaries like police districts and community council neighborhoods.

Limitations

• Addresses are anonymized (last two digits replaced with 'XX') and latitude/longitude are randomly skewed within a block, limiting precise location analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• The specific time range of historical data is not provided in the metadata.

Provenance

Source

Cincinnati Police Department.

Collection Method

Created through the City's computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system, with processing by the Office of Performance and Data Analytics.

Freshness

Updated daily. Last metadata update was 2026-04-02 00:44:10.

Geography

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.