NATIONAL CRIME INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM

Abstract

Crime is an antidote to national development. The health of a nation and her relative development are directly related to how well the nation is able to monitor and control her crime rate. In a nation with high incidence of crime, investors are scared, life is not safe and national objective become a mirage. In this work we developed an online National Crime Intelligence System, which helps to store and retrieve all persons with criminal related record in Nigeria. As a buildup to this work we visited all relevant organizations that are responsible for monitoring and controlling crime in Nigeria with a view to understanding their modulus operandi and to examining the current shortcomings in crime monitoring and control. Legal experts' opinions were sought in respect of administration of criminal cases in Nigeria. The intelligence information gathered in the exercise was used to build a robust database using the oracle database tool. Also, Visual Basic program were used to build the interface, which provide access medium to the Database. At the end of completion of the work I was able to build a package, A National Crime Intelligent System, christened Crime Monitor with the following attributes: • A crime intelligent System consisting of a Distributed Database, which facilitates the computer storage, retrieval and processing of criminal cases in Nigeria law courts. • An application package that facilitates the storage and retrieval of all people involved in Criminal cases in Nigerian law courts. • A user-friendly interactive, intelligent, menu-driven interface, which provides self-leaning approach that can easily be used by the user to store and retrieve data on the suspected criminal. • An intelligent model which can help the police and various stakeholders to obtain various statistic in respect of crime in Nigeria. • An intelligent model which could generally serve as a reference point for various securities agent and international communities in Nigeria when the need arises for needing the criminal history of anybody in Nigeria.