ICLEAR
On of the main obstacles for law enforcement is that criminal activities are increasingly mobile. Communicating information about criminal activity across jurisdictional borders is slow and often incomplete. However, this impediment can be overcome with proper application of computer and technological advances.
ICLEAR is a joint effort between ILEAS, the Illinois State Police, and the Chicago Police Department. The goal of this effort is to create a single data warehouse for all criminal activities within Illinois. The warehouse could then be access with busniess analytical tools to find patterns and share information to all law enforcement officials. To date hundreds of thousands of reports and records have been incorporated into the warehouse with goals to import data from every police/sheriff department in the State.
ICLEAR was proposed within the Illinois Terrorism Task Force (ITTF) in 2005. ILEAS was given the task of overseeing the grant management for this project, while ISP took on the duties of project management. The ICLEAR project was modeled on the successful deployment of a simliar data warehouse by the Chicago Police Department, known as CLEAR.
ISP ICLEAR Bulletin - March 2010