Crime mapping system prototype for the royal Malaysian police / Mohd Hanizan Mohd Wasli

This thesis presents a prototype system development of crime mapping prototype for the Royal Malaysian Police as a decision support system tool. However, the first objective of the study is to determine the crime classification based on the Penal Code. Classification of crime is to determine the type of crime that contribute to the fear of crime among the community. This study also aims to develop data model for crime incidence for the crime mapping system. The development of the prototype system includes the creation of spatial database to cope with the spatial and temporal features exist in the crime mapping system. The main aim of the developed system is to prove the benefits gained from the use of the developed system. As an experimental region studied under the development, police reports data were collected from the Kajang, Selangor Police Department. Data which was used are crime cases which were reported and opened for investigation from February and March 2013. Classification of the type of crime was based on the index crime which is published in the Malaysian’s National Key Result Area Report 2010. Based on the visualized data on the crime map, and with manipulation of date range or the type of crime on the system, the administrations is capable of planning for resource allocations and possible of restructuring either permanent or temporarily. Based on the findings the system could be implemented into the organisation, to improve the policing strategies by district level police headquarters.