Device, system and method for deploying communication devices based on historic incidents

A computing device comprising:

• a controller and a communication interface, the controller having access to a memory storing historic incident data, the controller configured to:
• determine, for a plurality of regions, predicted incident risks for a given time, based on distance differences and time differences of historic incidents relative to each of the plurality of the regions and the given time over a first time period and a distance from each of the plurality of regions, the predicted incident risks further based on incident prediction parameters for weighting the distance differences and the time differences, the historic incidents stored as the historic incident data in the memory;
• determine from the predicted incident risks, a subset of the plurality of the regions having highest predicted incident risks;
• determine an incident prediction efficiency, for the subset of the plurality of the regions, over a second time period, based on a number of the historic incidents in the subset of the plurality of the regions relative to a total number of the historic incidents for the plurality of the regions;
• vary the first time period, the distance, and the incident prediction parameters when determining the predicted incident risks and the subset of the plurality of the regions having the highest predicted incident risks, to maximize the incident prediction efficiency for the second time period;
• and
• generate one or more commands for deploying, using the communication interface, communication devices to the subset of the plurality of the regions that result in the incident prediction efficiency being maximized.