A multidimensional nature of analyses carried out in police is attributed to the complexity of relevant issues. Each decision-making process, preceded by an in-depth analysis, requires a reference to its conclusions, which should be professionally documented and comprehensible to their receipients. A map and spatial aspect are certainly necessary to each analysis, in particular, to the visualisation of its outcome. A lassic example and point of reference can be criminal analysis, which originated in the police, and how it ranks within an organisational structure and area of activities performed by particular services. Carried out for over a decade, criminal analyses reveal the need for geocodified data to be located in space or for those which can be located approximately on the map. The article provides general information about criminal analysis in Poland and presents in detail the functionality of analytical applications (Analyst's Notebook and iBase) used by police and other law enforcement agencies. The context of the above-mentioned has been presented as compared to the use of GIS map and tools.

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