Crime analysis system - a proactive approach to policing for Kayole Police Station
Date
2019
Authors
Mwasingo, E. W. M.
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Strathmore University
Abstract
To maintain law and order, the Kenya Police Service (KPS) deploys proactive policing methods based on reports of crime recorded in the Occurrence Book (OB) by the victims. Smart, effective, and proactive policing is clearly preferable to simply reacting to criminal acts. Data from crimes reported is carefully analyzed to create crime statistics, crime graphs, crime clocks and crime maps which form the guide to proactive policing. Crime Analysis System (CAS) seeks to digitize the process of data capture, analysis and visualization. This is as opposed to the current manual system of reporting and analyzing crime. This system automatically evaluates the data to produce real crime statistics and plot them on crime graphs and scatter plots while at the same time taking care of the crime clock. Crime statistics shows the numbers of actionable crimes over a period of time. Crime graph shows the crime trends in an area over a period of time while the scatter plots show the concentration and density of specific crimes in a specified area. The crime clock simply shows distribution of crime across the twenty four hours. With this, the KPS is better placed to review personnel deployment and allocation of resources to reduce and control crime to manageable levels. This web based system has the capability of notifying the police personnel of sudden rise in crime in a different areas and call for an intervention. Incremental methodology was used to develop the system. The first model incorporated important functionality with subsequent modules added on to the base model gradually. This factored-in the sensitive nature of crime handling and deployment plans of the police service.
Keywords: Crime Analysis System CAS, digital OB, crime statistics, Kenya Police.
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Full - text Undergraduate project
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Mwasingo, E. W. M. (2019). Crime analysis System—A proactive approach to policing for Kayole Police Station [Strathmore University]. http://hdl.handle.net/11071/15656