On Monday, 26 analysts and investigators will report to the eighth floor of the Police Department headquarters in Lower Manhattan, in a room that appears to have come straight out of a futuristic movie about crime solving.

The facility, known as the Real Time Crime Center, has rows of computer stations and screens mounted on the walls with video feeds from around New York City. It will become the nerve center for a new, more efficient kind of detective work Mayor Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, announced yesterday morning.

“The center will use sophisticated information technology to identify and stop emerging crime quickly,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “It will help police stop spikes in crime before they become trends, and make sure dangerous criminals are caught before they can hurt others.”

At the heart of the $11 million crime center is a huge database that brings together billions of records, which previously had been stored precinct by precinct in files and binders.

The police commissioner said the center would give detectives the ability to access crucial information in minutes by phone, e-mail, or fax, instead of waiting days or weeks as they had to with the original system.

It will also allow detectives to stay in the field investigating crimes, rather than forcing them to hunker down in precincts to root through files and documents.

More than 5 million New York State criminal records, parole, and probation files are among the data that will be accessible at the crime center. More than 20 million New York City criminal complaints, summonses, and 911 calls will also be accessible, as will more than 33 billion public records.

The center’s “link analysis” capacity allows it to track suspects to all of their known addresses. Its “crime tracker” capacity allows it to map similar crimes across the city.

The center also employs satellite imaging and sophisticated mapping of the city, precinct by precinct.

Mr. Kelly showcased some of the capacities of the new system in a demonstration yesterday morning. Starting with information about the time and location of a crime, as well as the color of the getaway car and the nickname and description of the tattoo on one of the suspects, Mr. Kelly walked onlookers through a series of data searches, which ultimately led police to two suspects.

For now, the center will handle only homicides and shootings. In the future, it may help solve other serious crimes.

“This is just the beginning,” Mr. Kelly said, adding, “You kind of have to crawl before you walk here.”

Mr. Bloomberg said the new crime center would revolutionize crime solving in the same way that CompStat, which was created in 1994, revolutionized crime tracking in New York City.

He said the information compiled at the center would be “comprehensive, highly relevant, instantaneous, and will transform the ways we solve crime.”