Rossmo was one of the founders of ECRI, and he has served as ECRI’s Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board since inception.ġ986 – Geographic profiling first conceived by Kim Rossmo.ġ990 – First operational geographic profile produced for the Vancouver Police Department (VPD).ġ994 – Environmental Criminology Research Inc.
He is now a research professor at Texas State University, heading the university’s Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation.
From 1996 – 2000 he served as the Detective Inspector in charge of a special Geographic Profiling Unit at the Vancouver Police Department which trained geographic profilers from other international police agencies. Kim Rossmo, who developed the concept of geographic profiling as part of his doctoral research in criminology at Simon Fraser University in the early 1990s while simultaneously serving as a police officer on the Vancouver force. ECRI’s products are now used for advanced crime and intelligence analysis by national, regional and local police agencies throughout the world, in applications from ranging from serial murder investigation to counter-terrorism to reducing local property crime.ĮCRI’s patented geographic profiling technology is based on the pioneering work of Dr.
The company is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ĮCRI’s Rigel™ professional geographic profiling system was first introduced in 1997 with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), then with the National Crime and Operations Faculty (NCOF) in the UK in 1999 (now part of the National Crime Agency, NCA), and with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in the United States in 2004. (ECRI) develops and supplies software for advanced crime analysis to police, military and security customers.
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