ECRI Environmental Criminology Research Inc.

Is a system for Geographic Profiling designed to support serial crime investigations by prioritizing suspects and addresses, and enabling the investigators to focus their resources on specific locations.
Uses ECRI’s patented Criminal Geographic Targeting (CGT) algorithm and is Java based for platform independence.
Supports a variety of GIS and text data sources and can be customized according to customer requirements. Rigel™ can effectively manage the integration of address and location information, as well as incorporating additional geographic layers (i.e. schools, shops, playgrounds etc.) that are of interest.
Is able to extract information from a case linkage system such as ViCLAS. Information can include crime locations, suspect information, case details and investigator details.
Presents the results in the form of a two or three-dimensional surface maps called "jeopardies" showing the most probable locations of an offender’s residence. At the core of Rigel™ is the patented algorithm used to derive the output map from the set of input data.
Enables law enforcement agencies to focus their search efforts on the most likely neighbourhoods, thus making optimal use of their resources.
Is used by leading police agencies and has been used in hundreds of cases around the world.