A Holistic Framework for Crime Prevention, Response, and Analysis With Emphasis on Women Safety Using Technology and Societal Participation

Aim:

         To prevent crime scenes before it takes place by alerting the victim (women) by Hi-Tech Framework and volunteer participation.

Abstract:

         Today ensuring women’s safety in smart cities is the need of an hour.Even though several technologies and prevention measures have introduced and implemented, it remains still an international concern to be noticed. Criminal records are generally maintained by Law Enforcement Agencies, which are not easily accessible are available to the general public in easy way. While some wearable devices and mobile app has been developed to aid crime against women, is not an exact idea in ensuring women’s safety when she is in need. Our major aim is to prevent and protect them before the crime incident occurs. Here we are going to develop a mobile application, a wrist band to track a victim using Geographic Information System (GIS) to analyze, map and prevent the crime by alerting the volunteers nearby the crime hotspot. This work with the GIS identifies the hotspot and patterns the crime. The proposed system uses the data generated from the mobile app and wrist band to analysis the crime areas and prevents it before it occurs in nearly future.

Existing system:

        Women’s safety has been one of the top priorities for law enforcement agencies over several decades. Even police departments around the world are facing difficulties to adopt newer solution to handle the concern of women safety. Several initiatives have been undertaken by police and public such as dedicated police wings, me too initiative, mobile applications and wearables. Through which the offenders are punished severely. With these mobile applications other than dialing police control room, the SOS triggers call to their given emergency contacts. But for the worst cases when the victims are out of range to the police or their guardian, are in danger even though they have mobile application and wearbles, as these applications sends alerts to the police and their registered guardian number who is in distant location and it takes more time to reach the victim which causes the victim to be attacked. And there are several more app which shows an alert of a hotspot are i.e. it divides the area as safe and unsafe based on several factors such as lighting conditions, openness, visibility, number of people in the vicinity, number of police stations, walk way etc, which is also once again boons ensuring of women’s safety. To overcome this some wearables are developed to ensure women safety. Some are standalone others are linked with mobile phones and triggers the sound alerts. These wearables are also not gone well for ensuring women’s safety since the sound alert produced by it may cause the offenders to attack the victim to safeguard themselves from public nearby. In order to avoid this, a holistic framework is designed with GIS to denote the crime hotspot, track the crime incident and provide analysis about the hotspot areas and also the crime scene in prevented using the societal participation.

Problem Definition:

• All these frameworks goes well with the prevention of crime scenes based on the data collected but loses in ensuring particularly on women’s safety.
• The crime date from law enforcement agencies is not available or accessible to the general public for their awareness.

 Proposed system:

      With the analysis of the previous technologies and their boons to meet women’s safety factor, we have developed a hi-tech framework(SHE-Out Of Harm’s Way)which contains a web application, mobile app and a wrist band. In our hi-tech framework the core theme is ensuring the women’s safety and preventing the crime by volunteering the general public volunteers at the victim’s location as immediate effect. Our framework contains following building blocks,

1. Registration of Users through Website, where users can register in their details and open an account as volunteer too. The registered user can login via their unique ID generated while registering. And they can download a mobile app for handy.
2. GIS Data for hotspot, data about the crime hotspot are collected and updated by Admin regularly.
3. Mobile App and Wrist Band Alert, when the victim enters the crime hotspot identified by our GIS an alert is sent to the victims at the victim location to prevent the crime scene.
4. Crime Response and Analysis, based on the details from the victim and volunteer the response is tracked and analysis is done by admin for near future.

Advantages:

• With this Hi-Tech framework the crime scene can be prevented on ensuring women’s safety too.
• The criminal data from law enforcement agency also easily accessible by general public through GIS system and from our portal that makes the public aware of the crime hotspots.