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Excel for Public Safety

Early $250.00 ENDS JULY 27
Regular $275.00 ENDS SEPTEMBER 27
Late (13 Days Left) $300.00 ENDS OCTOBER 27

Host: POLICE TECHNICAL
Location: Online
Dates: October 27, 2025 - October 28, 2025
Times: 12:00PM - 4:00PM ET
Fee: $300.00


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Harnessing the Power of Microsoft Excel to Better Manage Data & Improve Investigations

Course Overview
Microsoft Excel® for Public Safety™ is designed to help public safety personnel best utilize Microsoft Excel ® to successfully manage law enforcement specific data. Whether it is case specific data (e.g. telephone tolls, financials) or agency-wide data (e.g. arrest stats, fugitive lists, calls for service), it can be analyzed with just a few clicks using this powerful tool!

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for law enforcement personnel, which includes: any sworn officer, support staff, administrative personnel, Supervisors and Management. Attendees need only a basic understanding of computers and Excel®. No technical or analytical background is required.

Material Requirements
Students should bring a laptop with Microsoft Excel (version 2003 or higher). Additional materials (data sets) will be provided to students.

Agenda
Day One

  1. Uses in Law Enforcement - Telephone tolls; Financial analyses; Agency stats
  2. Navigation & Manipulation - Rows, columns, cells, ranges, worksheets
  3. Tools - Autofill, conditional formatting
  4. Simple formulas - Sum, Average, Median, Mode, Crime Rate and more
  5. Complex formulas - Date conversion to days of week, months of year
  6. Concatenating - Combining data stored separately


Day Two

  1. Parsing - Separating data using Text to Columns 
  2. Best Charting practices - Bar, columnar, and pie chart usage; proper use of data labels, legends, gridlines etc.
  3. Why you should never chart in 3-D
  4. Importing/Exporting - Linking data between products
  5. Data Validation - Creating pull-down lists to give forced options
  6. The three analytical tools you must know - Sorting, filtering, & the magic of Pivot Tables