Calls for service dispatched to Mesa Police by 911 where Event Type was Welfare Check or Suicide.

Information about proactive homeless contacts made by Mesa Police as part of Homeless Outreach Project (HOP). The "Homeless Outreach Project" involves a proactive contact made by police during an outreach effort in which services are offered to people experiencing homelessness by a nonprofit partner in partnership with Police.

Contacts = Number of individuals contacted by officers and confirmed by self-admission or other means to be homeless. Not all contacts were involved in a citeable or arrestable criminal offense or accepted humanitarian service of shelter, medical, or mental health assistance.
Service Resistance/Arrests = Individual is arrested, cited, or a long form complaint is filed. Individual was contacted in commission of a crime or citable offense. If it was a felony or a warrant individual was arrested. Any minor misdemeanor or city code offenses individual is offered services of housing, CBI, etc. in lieu of a cite or being arrested. Individual declines services and is arrested or issued a citation.
Service Acceptance = No crime or criminal activity is occurring. Individual is contacted and is offered shelter, medical, or mental health services and accepts placement into one of these services. Individual is transported to CBI by officer, Navigators are called and transport individual for shelter, or fire transports subject to an appropriate facility.

See https://www.mesaaz.gov/residents/community-development/reducing-homelessness/help-for-the-homeless for more information about Help for the Homeless.

Number of municipal court cases by month opened and case type. Filtered by current year.

Sworn officer positions assigned to street patrol and calls for service. Number does not include sworn Sergeants, Lieutenants and Commanders of districts. Position count is calculated in August for each given year.

Budget Book page for the department.

Confirmed cases of opioid overdose, locations are not actual but instead rounded to approximately 1/3 mile increments. Opioid overdose confirmed by 1) patient or witness verification, 2) Opioid found on scene or 3) positive response to Narcan treatment. Each row in this dataset represents an MFMD unit response to a confirmed overdose incident. In a small number of cases, more than one unit responded to the same incident or the incident involved more than one patient. These cases are identified by rows with the same "Incident ID" and a Final Incident Disposition for each responding unit and/or patient.

**Updates to this dataset are paused due to technical difficulties in Police**
Misdemeanor jail inmate housing (incidents by location, month, fiscal year) beginning from fiscal year 2011/2012, and includes information relating to those individuals housed at CoreCivic beginning July 2017. No individually identifiable information is included in this data extract.

This data will be posted one month behind when the period closes due to the data collection process.

Information sourced from Arizona Department of Health of confirmed COVID-19 cases by zip code and displayed here to better visualize the data. Direct REST Endpoint URL in Source Link field below. Statewide data available at https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/infectious-disease-epidemiology/covid-19/dashboards/index.php.

Calls for service dispatched to Mesa Police Patrol Officers. Calls are modified for public use, obfuscating the address number through rounding it to the 100 block. Note that these are calls for service and may not necessarily correspond to the data located in the Police Incidents dataset. Crimes reported in this data set have not been adjudicated in a court of law for final determination.

Sensitive crimes are listed but the address of their occurrence will NOT be included. In this way aggregate totals of crimes will be accurate, without providing sensitive information. Addresses where the following crime types occur will NOT be captured: Sexual abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Incest, Molestation of a child and Homicide.

Emergency (E) Calls: Life threatening or confrontations which may threaten life or safety of a person.

Priority One Call: In progress crime that could result in a threat to injure or possible major property loss or immediate apprehension of a suspect. Accidents with injury or other traffic incidents that create a traffic hazard.

Priority Two Calls: Minor in-progress/just occurred calls, where there is no threat of injury or major property loss.

Priority Three Calls: Nuisance calls, civil standbys, delayed reports where reporting party (RP) is at public location.

Priority Four Calls: Calls where a delay will not result in a crime occurring or the loss of an apprehension or an injured person not receiving aid.

Priority Five Calls: Calls with no time requirement for dispatch. Calls where a delay will not result in a crime occurring or the loss of an apprehension or an injured person not receiving aid where the priority is approved by a supervisor.

Priority Six Calls: On-view calls. An officer on view or officer initiated case.