Design and Implementation of an E-Policing System to Report Crimes in Nigeria
Policing system in Nigeria, a country of about 160 million people is in a state of degradation, criminal offences such as theft, bribery, armed robbery, assassinations and corruption are highly enormous. At the centre of this transformation is the electro
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1 Introduction There is no doubt about the importance of the internet; it has made people more connected than ever before. The use of the internet by the police could help the public easily get access to them, thereby making crime reporting easier and faster responses can be gotten, which will make crime fighting a lot easier. As defined by the Mohamed [1], “E-Policing is the exchange of information and services amongst police, related law enforcement agencies and citizens via internet”. There are several areas of an E-policing system, but in this work, we are handling crime reporting in E-policing. Crime reporting involves the creation and submitting of crime reports. Crime reports are written description of crime events, which is gotten from one or more sources (location of crime) upon which decisions will be made. The proposed system will allow a police staff or citizens report crime incidents, accidents, and every other distasteful event, when they come in contact with such. The system allows upload of videos (if available), audio files, images from the crime N. Omoregbe · S. Misra (B) · A. Falade · A. Adewumi Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria e-mail: [email protected] N. Omoregbe e-mail: [email protected] A. Falade e-mail: [email protected] A. Adewumi e-mail: [email protected] R. Maskeliunas · R. Damasevicius Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania e-mail: [email protected] R. Damasevicius e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 R. K. Shukla et al. (eds.), Data, Engineering and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6351-1_21
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scene and description of the whole crime event. Crime reports by police personnel are more detailed, depending on the type of crime. It can include major suspects. Information technology has made people’s jobs in various sectors of the industry easier and the same can be said about the Nigerian police force if adopted. E-policing (crime reporting) will allow the police get fast access to incidents occurring in an area, in which there is no police personnel available. Also, a database of crime reports means a report can easily be lookup and decisions can take on them.
1.1 Aim, Objective and Significance of Study The importance and relevance of an E-policing system in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized as the country is still lacking behind in automating some of its key security system such as E-policing and so on. E-policing system is a boost to the efficiency of crime reporting, with the deployment of an E-policing system, crime reporting becomes easy and faster. Citizens can easily report criminal incidence wherever they are, at any time. For the police, the E-policing system in Nigeria provides an organized record of complaints, criminal data, cases and records that can be easily accessed by the authorities (police force). Also for the police, the E-pol
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