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PROBL~ STATEMENT (Continued) <br /> <br />of Orange County and the increased rate of burglaries. ~here has <br />also been a decline in the available police manpower resources on <br />the regional level. Other equally important dimensions to the prob- <br />lem also are identifiable and should be addressed in order to oper- <br />ationally enhance the burglary prevention ~nd apprehension function <br />of law enforcement. <br /> <br />~he law enforcement con~nnity of Orange County is comprised of twenty- <br />two municipal police agencies and the Orange County Sheriff's Depart- <br />merit. ~he operational activities of these police agencies as they <br />pertain to the burglary prevention and apprehension functions are con- <br />fined essentially to Jurisdictional boundaries, while the activities of <br />the burglar (or potential burglar) are not. Present law enforcement <br />practices sre frequently determined according to in~nediate and/or local <br />needs. This system does not adequately afford police officers the <br />opportunity for systen~tic inquiry about events; e.g., burglaries which <br />occur in other Jurisdictions, although useful information frequently <br />exists. Moreover, the present systems and procedures employed by each <br />of the respective police agencies within Orange County tend to be data- <br />oriented rather than function or task-oriented. As a result, the infor- <br />mation collected often is of poor or insufficient quality, excessive <br />i~ volume, lost, or unavailable (at a minimum, uncoordinated) in a <br />myriad of disassociated files. Enforcement program, therefore, generally <br />lack proper development or application because the burglary investigator <br />is not provided with sufficiently complete or detailed burglary related <br />information. <br /> <br /> <br />