Utilizing ICT to Fight against Crime: Emerging ICT Tools, Forms of Crime and Its Solutions

Abstract-Malefaction, policing and security are enabled by and co-evolve with technologies that make them possible. As malefactors compete with security and policing officials for technological advantage perpetually intricate malefaction, policing and security results in relatively perplexing and therefore unmanageable threats to society. Incipient, adaptive and mundane malefactions emerge over time to engender technology malefaction waves, the magnitude of which can theoretically be quantified, compared and presaged. These principles underscore an incipient theory of technology-enabled malefaction, policing and security pertinent for understanding contemporary threats posed by emerging forms of cybercrime, transnational malefaction and terrorism networks that defy traditional methods malefactor equity and security measures for averting and controlling malefaction. The exordium of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are rapidly transmuting the way of public interact not only with each other but withal with private businesses, regime institutions. ICT in policing make possible the accumulation, storage and rapid dissemination of information, it upgrades public safety and reduces malefaction. This research paper is an attempt to focus shadow on the various forms of crime and assess the ICT tools available to law enforcement. These technologies work as force multipliers that amend efficiency, efficacy, and officer safety in a variety of ways