Abstract:
Crimes are unpredictable and increasing rapidly within the society. People tend to
commit crimes due to various reasons but the main factor is the economic downfall of
uneducated people. A crime is described as an action that violates a country's laws. As
a consequence of committing a crime, you can be sentenced to jail or fined. The Sri
Lankan police stations are still using a manual process to document and handle crimes,
which they record into police logbooks. Each police station has a crime map and a time
graph that shows the crimes that have occurred within the area of the particular police
station’s jurisdiction. This map and time graph are maintained by the workplace police
officers in the crime branch of police stations. It is used in order to make the duty
allocations for the police patrols each day.
The project's goal is to digitize the map and time graph, with the option of crime
verification via the system itself. The map will be modified after a crime has been
entered into the system with all of the necessary information. Rather than keeping
books, which take up a lot of storage space, this approach allows the police
department to conveniently archive crime reports from previous years.
The requirements were gathered by conducting interviews with police officers. The
crimes will be classified into six different categories which are standardly used by the
Sri Lankan police stations. Additionally, the system will contain an analytical
dashboard which will allow users to view the analytics of past crime data, this can be
also used instead of the manual reports that are being created by officers with
statistics.
The final output was tested with industry experts and technical experts for which they
provided their valuable feedback. The future improvements, challenges faced and
recommendations are some of the topics that are discussed within the context of the
thesis."
