Online Crime Reporting System

University of Ilorin, Computer Science Department

Abstract
Crime is part of human activities and needs to be managed. No human society has ever been totally free of deviants and it is unlikely that society will ever be. The more populated and complex a society becomes the wider the range of anti-social conduct that must be controlled by government using police power. The incident-based system reports on a much broader range of crimes and includes data on the circumstances of the crime, the victim, and the defendant.
The current crime reporting system is faced with several difficulties as there is no instant means of reporting crime rather than telephone calls, messaging or perhaps face-to-face which is always cumbersome in a case the reporter might want to keep anonymity. The proposed crime reporting system is aimed to assist the Nigeria police in their bid to solve crimes with timely and useful information about criminals and/or their mode of operations so as to nib in the bud criminal activities in a given locality. A prototype of crime reporting system was designed based on four reporting forms: a complaint or dispatch reporting form, a crime event report form, follow-up investigation report form, and an arrest report form. The system consists of three functional modules: a data capture module, a report management and control module, and a data utilization module. The implementation of the design shows a promising future of the platform.
Keywords: criminals, geographical, innovation, Information Technology

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………6-9
1.1 Problem Statement …………………………………………………………………...9
1.2 Aims and Objectives …………………………………………………………………9
1.3 Scope of the Study …………………………………………………………………...10
1.4 Research

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