Purpose
The Delta Police Department (DPD) is committed to providing the community with timely, accessible information about crime in Delta.
This interactive map provides an overview of selected reported crime incidents across Delta. By default, the map displays incidents reported throughout Delta over the previous seven days. Users can explore available reporting periods of seven days or longer and filter results by crime type or policing district, with access to historical information from the previous 12 months. The accompanying district map shows how Delta is divided into DPD's five policing districts and provides a geographic reference for interpreting district-level crime statistics.
Important Information
The following information should be considered when using the crime mapping dashboard.
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Reported vs. Actual Incidents
The data includes incidents reported to or discovered by police. Not all crimes are reported or otherwise come to police attention. Incidents determined through investigation to be unfounded are not included. An incident is classified as unfounded when police confirm that no offence occurred or was attempted.
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Data Updates and Changes
The dashboard is updated daily and reflects police records available at the time of the update. Information may change over time due to ongoing investigations, file reviews, quality control, late reporting or changes to offence classifications.
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Timing of Reported Incidents
The date an incident is reported to police may differ from when the incident occurred. As a result, incidents appearing within a selected date range may include offences that occurred earlier but were reported during that period.
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Incident Location and Privacy
To protect privacy, personal identifying information is not displayed, and incident locations are generalized to the hundred-block or thousand-block level.
Map markers represent the general area where an offence was reported to have occurred, not its exact location. Due to how generalized locations are displayed, a marker may visually appear on a particular property. This does not indicate that the offence occurred at that property.
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Scope of the Dashboard
The dashboard displays selected monitored offences and does not represent all crime reported to DPD or all police calls for service (CFS). Records without a usable location or with an address outside Delta are not displayed on the map.
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Interpreting the Map
The map is intended to provide a general geographic view of selected reported crime occurrences. The location and number of mapped occurrences should be considered in context and should not be interpreted as a complete measure of crime or safety in a particular area. Apparent concentrations of incidents do not necessarily indicate that a particular location is unsafe.
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Reporting Method
The Crime Mapping Dashboard uses a primary offence approach, meaning each police file is represented once on the map based on its primary Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) classification.
This differs from the Quarterly Crime Statistics dashboard, which includes all monitored offences associated with a police file in its geographic displays. As a result, the offences displayed geographically may differ between the two dashboards and should be interpreted in the context of their respective reporting methods.