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Nov 1, 2009 3:46 pm US/Pacific

San Gabriel Residents Can Soon Track Crimes Online

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. (CBS) ― San Gabriel residents will soon be able to track crime trends in their neighborhoods online, it was reported Sunday.

Beginning Monday, call logs from the San Gabriel Police Department will be sent daily to www.crimemapping.com, where the data will be mapped and posted on the interactive Web site, the Pasadena Star-News reported.

"It's a community outreach," San Gabriel police Crime Prevention Officer Alex Acosta told the newspaper.

Acosta said the information will be kept up-to-date.

"It's going to be accurate information that we're putting up there," he said, "and it's gonna be put up in a timely matter."

In a written statement, San Gabriel Police Chief David Lawton said, "Crime mapping.com will prove to be effective in reducing crime by increasing the number of eyes and ears out there aware of local activity."

Lawton added that the system required no man-hours from police, but will automatically retrieve data from a records management system.

Users will also be able to request e-mail notifications alerting them to recently reported crimes.

Click here for more information.

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