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| The Ohio State Highway Patrol Statistical Analysis Unit (SAU) is situated within the Office of Strategic Services section of OSHP at General Headquarters.
In the last few years the Ohio State Highway Patrol has undergone a significant transition to capture and utilize more data with in-car computers, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), and GPS technology for location based reporting. With this increase in data capture, there is an equal need to analyze that data for trends, predictions, and strategic planning. The SAU examines data captured in traffic stops, crashes, and case activity to identify trends that can be used for operational deployment of resources to stop violators, prevent crashes and catch criminals. SAU works daily on those products that are delivered to the field commanders, supervisors, and troopers, assisting them with their efforts toward achieving the OSHP mission: “An internationally accredited agency whose mission is to protect life and property, promote traffic safety and provide professional public safety services with respect, compassion, and unbiased professionalism.” For years law enforcement in general has captured mountains of data with little ability to form a useful product out of all that information. The SAU sifts, squeezes, and synchronizes that mountain of data into workable reports and maps that can be retrieved and used.
A testament of the SAU ability to work with the field commanders has been demonstrated with the LifeStat 1.0 initiative. The efforts of OSHP have been extracted, weighed, analyzed and transformed into products useful to the Division as well as the media outlets. Some of the products that originate from the Statistical Analysis Unit are:
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