Crime Data Mining for Indian Police Information System

There has been an enormous increase in the crime in the recent past. Crime deterrence has become an upheaval task. The cops in their role to catch criminals are required to remain convincingly ahead in the eternal race between law breakers and law enforcers. One of the key concerns of the law enforcers is how to enhance investigative effectiveness of the police. There is need for user interactive interfaces based on current technologies to give them the much needed edge and fulfil the new emerging responsibilities of the police. The paper highlights the existing systems used by Indian police as e-governance initiatives and also proposes an interactive query based interface as crime analysis tool to assist police in their activities. The proposed interface is used to extract useful information from the vast crime database maintained by National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) and find crime hot spots using crime data mining techniques such as clustering etc. The effectiveness of the proposed interface has been illustrated on Indian crime records. An interactive interface as crime analysis tool has been designed for this purpose