Creating a solid GIS for Public Safety isn’t all about incidents and situational awareness. Fundementally, the Public Safety Enterprise is about managing information. Good knowledge management is a cornerstone of protecting and serving the community life, property, and well being. Inventory and asset management run the gamut from inter-departmental logistics to tracking resources and activity in the community.

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Crawl Hard copy mapping of various inventory and assets in a Public Safety agency is very helpful. It allows you to see where your key resources and capabilities are deployed. Further, this look at an agency helps decision makers evaluate future needs and/or deployment patterns. Where are my stations, where are my key peices of apparatus, where are my sectors and boundaries, do they have enough resources to serve thier areas? This mapping can serve as an input for Capability Assessment.	Walk Using very well structured data templates like the Local Government Information Model is a very good way to create and maintain foundational data that is important to Public Safety. Using a standard data model and symbology like this is an excellent way to create interoperability with other Local agencies who will lend you support with this base GIS data.	Run Using the Local Government Information Model allows you to create mobile applications with which staff can create and maintain important data for your Public Safety organization. This data allows easy maintenance and update of critical infrastructure, inspection, enforcement, and land records data and is the foundation of products that agencies use to add call data and resource information as well as foundational and dynamic analysis.
Example: Search Local Government at ArcGIS Online	Example: Local Government at ArcGIS Online	Example: Kentucky Mutual Aid Support System

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