Weekly meetings held by Philadelphia police officials will no longer be open to the public and media, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Compstat sessions, which are now only open to police personnel, were launched in March 1998 by the Philadelphia Police Department so that police could have concrete forum in which to analyze and map weekly crime statistics from across the city.
Penn Police officials participate in the meetings.
However, the Philadelphia police commissioner has announced that the meetings will now be closed to allow police to discuss more confidential information.
Originally, Compstat was designed to be open to the public to provide the public with a sense of how the police department works, the Inquirer reported.
