The Crime Analysis Division is affiliated with two other research organizations, Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies (ICURS) has the largest private crime analysis database in North America. The lab specializes in using geographic information in concert with crime data to establish criminal patterns. Much of the spatial and temporal analysis completed in this lab is done in partnership with law enforcement and criminal justice agencies to develop prevention and security strategies. Studies include the nature of crimes, crime scene patterns, and the link between offenders' motivation and crime distribution in time and space. ICURS assists police in visualizing and analyzing crime, in order to deploy limited resources and provide information integral to community-based policing.

CPAL Inc. is a private company that was borne from ICURS. Its mission is to become a world leader in secure, state-of-the-art, crime pattern analysis solutions, enabling law enforcement agencies world wide to more efficiently profile and track crime and its perpetrators. Its premier software solution CrimePoint 2002 Enterprise is a Microsoft Windows®, client/server software solution, which allows for the centralized sharing of crime data across a network. Based in proven behavioral models developed from crime analysis, templates assist users to develop more complete data with more effective analytic capabilities.