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Toward an mPolicing solution for Namibia: leveraging emerging mobile platforms and crime mapping

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Kasper L. Jensen,

Hedvig N. K. Iipito,

Michel U. Onwordi,

Sebastian MukumbiraAuthors Info & Claims

SAICSIT '12: Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference

Pages 196 - 205

https://doi.org/10.1145/2389836.2389860

Published: 01 October 2012 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present a system designed for the Namibian Police to empower officers to create and maintain crime and accident reports more effectively and more efficiently by improving the current paper based procedures. Beyond the digitalization of existing forms, the activity of creating new reports in the field is enhanced through a mobile application that utilizes built-in sensors in mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones to capture location and other contextual information together with rich media in the forms of pictures, audio and videos. A central repository is used to allow fast and easy access for relevant stakeholders, and we demonstrate how this repository can be used together with GIS data to create powerful crime mapping tools. While still in the early phases we demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solution through implementation of prototypes and isolated studies of core modules in the architecture and a first iteration of the interface design based on interviews with stakeholders in the organization and analysis of the current workflows.

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Toward an mPolicing solution for Namibia: leveraging emerging mobile platforms and crime mapping
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Visualization
    1. Visualization application domains
      1. Geographic visualization
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Spatial-temporal systems

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DOI:10.1145/2389836

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https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2642-1.ch006
Sakpere AKayem A(2018)On Anonymizing Streaming Crime Data: A Solution Approach for Resource Constrained EnvironmentsPrivacy and Identity Management. The Smart Revolution10.1007/978-3-319-92925-5_11(170-186)Online publication date: 9-Jun-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92925-5_11
Sundar SCho EWang J(2017)Interacting with Mobile MediaThe Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction10.1002/9781118976005.ch27(615-639)Online publication date: 28-Dec-2017
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118976005.ch27
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