This document discusses the development of an automated criminal records system for the Nigeria police in Enugu. The current manual system leads to lost records and inefficient criminal tracking. The project aims to develop a database management system to store criminal records digitally, eliminating redundancy and allowing easy retrieval and tracking of criminals. Key features include providing printouts of documents and communication capabilities. The system seeks to address issues like delays in criminal trials due to inability to efficiently trace cases under the existing manual system. It aims to improve operational efficiency and facilitate coordination between police and judiciary.
This document discusses the development of an automated criminal records system for the Nigeria police in Enugu. The current manual system leads to lost records and inefficient criminal tracking. The project aims to develop a database management system to store criminal records digitally, eliminating redundancy and allowing easy retrieval and tracking of criminals. Key features include providing printouts of documents and communication capabilities. The system seeks to address issues like delays in criminal trials due to inability to efficiently trace cases under the existing manual system. It aims to improve operational efficiency and facilitate coordination between police and judiciary.
This document discusses the development of an automated criminal records system for the Nigeria police in Enugu. The current manual system leads to lost records and inefficient criminal tracking. The project aims to develop a database management system to store criminal records digitally, eliminating redundancy and allowing easy retrieval and tracking of criminals. Key features include providing printouts of documents and communication capabilities. The system seeks to address issues like delays in criminal trials due to inability to efficiently trace cases under the existing manual system. It aims to improve operational efficiency and facilitate coordination between police and judiciary.
This document discusses the development of an automated criminal records system for the Nigeria police in Enugu. The current manual system leads to lost records and inefficient criminal tracking. The project aims to develop a database management system to store criminal records digitally, eliminating redundancy and allowing easy retrieval and tracking of criminals. Key features include providing printouts of documents and communication capabilities. The system seeks to address issues like delays in criminal trials due to inability to efficiently trace cases under the existing manual system. It aims to improve operational efficiency and facilitate coordination between police and judiciary.
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ABSTRACT
This project work intends to automate the existing
criminal records of the Nigeria police using Enugu criminal investigating department. The essence was to produce durable criminal records and avoidable lost of criminal records. Structural database management system (DBMS) was used in its development in other to eliminate redundancy in the compilation, its friendliness in responding to the user exhibits and also its reliability and efficiency in tracking down criminals. Another important feature of this system was that it provides user with the facilities for having the hard copies or print out of any relevant document as well as the facilities to communication with the system. Tracking is the observing of persons or objects on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of respective location data to a model e.g. capable to serve for depicting the motion on a display capability. The traditional and age-old system of intelligence and criminal record maintenance has failed to live up to the requirements of the existing crime scenario. Manual processes neither provide accurate, reliable and comprehensive data round the clock nor does it help in trend prediction and decision support.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The lack of reliable central case recording systems for Nigerian police meant that cases were in effect impossible to trace without considerable resources, effort and a lot of luck. For criminal cases the impact of this has been felt in the practice of ‘holding charge’, where people are arrested and charged with capital offences in order to ensure their continued detention, whilst there is little or no evidence of their involvement. This issue has contributed significantly to the visible inefficiency of the Criminal Justice System, particularly the congestion of the prisons and the courts. To improve the flow of cases and achieve speedier administration of justice, the introduction and deployment of information technology (IT) based case management and tracking systems is needed.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of this
project is to design and implement a database for storing crime records. This will aid the police in crime tracking and control.
The main objective of the project was to Speed
up criminal trials and reduces the length of time Awaiting Trial Prisoners (ATPs) stay in prison by setting up a criminal case tracking system that improves coordination between justice institutions. The system would ensure a better case flow and efficient data management that would inform better management decisions.
1.4 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
Implementation of a crime tracking information
system by the Nigerian police will help the police and the masses to get useful information on individuals with crime records. The system developed will among other things: 1. Maintain a database of all crime records 2. Enable a quick search on the database to retrieve crime information 3. Enables Enugu police and the Nigerian police to track previous crimes committed by a suspect. 4. Improved operational efficiency through the use of a standardized system, searchable digital repository of relevant documents, automated workload distributed and virtual boarding of cases. 5. With Case Tracking System (CTS), it is possible to access contact details of the Nigeria police Force (NPF) and the judiciary at a glance and it facilitates quicker and more effective communication between the police and judiciary. With Case Tracking Information System attorney’s would spend less time to utilize the information in a manner that is most beneficial to them.
1.5 LIMITATION OF THE PROJECT
Due to time and financial constraint, I was unable
to visit most of the police stations in Enugu to gather information on the existing crime tracking information system. Few police stations were visited and the information gathered from the officers in charge forms the basis for the design of the new system.
