CLEVELAND — The City of Cleveland is about to implement one of Mayor Justin Bibb's goals from his State of the City address, adding five crime data analysts to the Cleveland Police Department.

Cleveland, like most big cities, has limited resources to handle crime. Now, the department is hoping to better deploy those resources by fulfilling a proposal from Mayor Justin Bibb and hiring more crime data analysts.

Todd Wiles is the only crime analyst at the Cleveland Police Department right now and said the need for more is evident.

"We track murder, rape, robbery, felonious assault, house break-ins, burglaries," he said. "These are our dashboards for the police department. In the city of Cleveland, we receive approximately 400,000 police calls for service each year. All these incidents go into a 911 call system."

The department will soon have one crime analyst for each of its five districts, allowing law enforcement to better identify and respond to trends with a goal of bringing those numbers down. 

"They will be responsible for helping the detectives and patrol officers in each one of those districts," Wiles said.

The analysts will be hired in the coming months and will work in a real time crime center. Wiles said adding this type of staff will help Cleveland tremendously. 

"This is the type of work I do for the police departments," he said. "I build these web reports for the police department based on the data that is collected in our servers in that 911 call process and in our records management system and police recording system."

Wiles said he’s had an interest in math and numbers since he was a kid and being able to apply those skills in the real world is what gets him up in the morning.

"It’s related to real people’s lives and has an impact on real people’s lives and that you’re helping people out by doing these analytics and providing this information to officers that are risking their lives everyday trying to help people out," he said.