An e-Policing Model for the Ghana Police Service

The proliferation of big data and data mining techniques in the world of business have yielded and continue to yield benefits across the globe as corporations have begun to realize its potential in boosting business growth, increasing competitive advantage, improving the efficiency of internal operations, optimizing productivity, providing better service and improving the quality of products. Therefore, data is today seen as an important commodity in giving any business its competitive edge. The same ideology has been discovered by police services in some countries as a means of improving policing and boosting police efficiency. This study assesses the level of policing in Ghana and the use of information technology, big data and data analytics in fighting crime, crime prevention and improving policing tactics. The concept of predictive policing and integration of big data and data mining in fighting crime is presented by proposing an e-policing model as a potentially impactful complement to the traditional policing methodologies of the Ghana Police Service (GPS)