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Overview
Key facts
It's a GIS-based course aimed at introducing intelligence, crime and community safety analysts and researchers to techniques for identifying and understanding hotspots and other geographic patterns of crime.
University College London (UCL)'s Understanding Crime Hotspots - GIS-Based Training course is run by UCL's Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science. It's held at our offices in London, but can also be delivered at your site for a minimum of six staff.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Theoretical principles for understanding hotspots
- Nearest neighbour and standard distance statistics for describing crime patterns
- Point maps
- Geographic boundary thematic mapping
- Quadrat thematic mapping
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 1 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) View 8 other Short Courses in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
This GIS-based course is for users of MapInfo, ArcGIS (ArcMAP) and CadCorp SIS.
It's aimed at:
- police and CSP analysts
- researchers
- information officers
It may also be useful if you're interested in GIS-based mapping, spatial statistics, thematic mapping, or kernel density estimation.
Tuition Fee
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International
475 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 475 GBP for the full programme during 1 days. -
National
475 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 475 GBP for the full programme during 1 days.
Living costs for London
1137 - 2157 GBP /month
Living costs
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