Crime Analyst

Posting Closes: March 17, 2026

Starting Pay: $24.93 hourly

General Description:

Responsible for work in the utilization of collected information on reported crimes and criminals to prevent and suppress criminal activities and apprehend criminal offenders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, business administration, political science or related field, AND
• One (1) year experience as a Crime Analyst or similarly related analytical work in management or law enforcement.
• A comparable amount of education and experience may be substituted for the minimum requirements.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Florida Driver’s License.
• Must be able to work a twelve (12) hour shift, rotating between dayshift and nightshift, including holidays, and weekends, and mandatory overtime to meet operational needs.

Background Screening: This position will require an extensive background investigation and drug screening.

Essential Functions:

• Performs all duties of a Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) Specialist as the foremost priority and carries out additional Crime Analyst functions including statistical analysis and investigative support.
• Prepares statistical analysis of offenses by district and patrol zone.
• Requests to assist in investigations and decision making.
• Generates and distributes maps relating to temporal crime events as well as bulleting, charts, and graphs.
• Generates and distributes maps of sexual predators/offenders.
• Reviews county intelligence bulletins, run RMS queries in response.
• Conducts comprehensive traffic accident studies with maps and other analysis.
• Prepares Auto/MC theft tracking for grant funded task force.
• Conducts meetings and presentations (i.e. neighborhood watches).
• Prepares Narcotics buffer maps.
• Attends deposition, court appearances.
• Performs administrative duties (monthly reports, documentation required by professional standards etc.)
• Attends work on a regular and consistent basis.
• Must adhere to Federal, State, County, and local ordinances.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Status: Civilian

Blood and Viral Pathogen Risk: Minimal Risk

Environmental Conditions:

• Inside and occasional outside work.
• Must be able to work under stressful conditions.
• Must be able to relocate to other county locations based upon operational needs.
• Must be able to remain available to work when a public emergency or disaster occurs.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to learn and use various computer software.
• Ability to interact effectively with others.
• Ability to read and comprehend technical and professional journals and manuals; reports, letters, memos, abstracts, instructions; legal documents, ordinances and statutes.
• Ability to write reports, memos, letters, instructions, and procedures.
• Ability to speak publicly; conversant in theory and practices of discipline; persuasive speaking.
• Ability to analyze data and develop conclusions.
• Ability to identify and resolve problems.
• Ability to initiate and install administrative programs and procedures and to evaluate their effectiveness.
• Ability to comprehend, analyze, and extract information from law enforcement officer’s reports on crime.
• Ability to make oral, written, and audio-visual presentations in a public or professional setting.

Required Knowledge:

• VSO General Orders and procedures.
• Principles of management and their application to the administration of governmental affairs.
• Area of assignment, including trends and concerns.
• Research and report writing techniques.
• Basic accounting principles and procedures.
• Florida Statutes, criminal methods of operations and crime analysis mapping.
• Operation of ArcView and ArcInfo computer programs.
• Fluency in Microsoft Software applications such as Word, Excel and Access.
• Operation of VSO RMS program and Volusia County CJIS program.

Physical Requirements:

• Manual dexterity.
• Ambulate independently.
• See at a normal range or with reasonable accommodation.
• Visual acuity (depth perception, peripheral vision) necessary to operate a motorized vehicle.
• Hear at normal level or with reasonable accommodation.
• Occasionally bend, squat, reach, grasp.
• Occasionally lift up to twenty-five pounds (25 lbs.).