General Calls for Service Information

The Tempe Police department received 117,570 calls for service in 2007.  These were citizen generated calls for service where an officer was dispatched and did not include officer initiated calls.  The number of calls for service in 2007 were 8.7% lower than 2006.  

The following chart shows the time of day and day of week distribution of all calls for service during 2007 in Tempe. The chart is a three dimensional chart that has been flattened in which the colors represent the third dimension (height). The darkest areas represent times wherein the most calls for service occur.  The most frequent times for calls for service were between 10:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m., and the most frequent days were Fridays and Saturdays.

The “2007 Calls for Service by RD” thematic map shows the frequency of calls for service XE "Calls For Service"  by reporting districts XE "Reporting Districts"  (RDs XE "RD" ).  RDs are geographic areas approximately two to three square blocks in size. This map does not depict a call for service rate for each RD, but shows the total number of calls for service in the area during 2007.

2007 Calls for Service by RD

The following table shows the frequency and percentage of the twenty-five most frequent types of calls for service in Tempe XE "Tempe" .  These categories are combinations of more specific call types.  For example, “suspicious activity calls” are a combination of “suspicious person,” “suspicious vehicle,” and “suspicious transient” calls.