A volunteered geographic information system for monitoring and managing urban crimes

A case study of Tehran, Iran

Bibliographic Data

ID21177933
AuthorsMohammadreza Jelokhani-Niaraki (University of Tehran), Mohammadreza Jelokhani‐Niaraki (0000-0001-7448-7833, University of Tehran), Ramin Bastami Mofrad (Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch), Qiuomars Yazdanpanah Dero (University of Tehran, corresponding author), Fakhreddin Hajiloo (University of Tehran), Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki (Geoinformation Technology Center of Excellence, Faculty of Geodesy & Geomatics, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran), Abolghasem Sadeghi‐Niaraki (0000-0002-0048-8216, K.N.Toosi University of Technology)
Year2020
Volume21
Issue6
Pages547-561
Publication date2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolice Practice and Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1561-4263 • E-ISSN: 1477-271X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15614263.2019.1644175
OpenAlexW2963979422
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited26

Crime occurrence is an ever-increasing social problem of Tehran city. Crime management for this city requires social action, public participation or community-oriented policing. In this regard, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) systems can be of great support to community policing efforts. By employing such systems, members of the society can act as active, intelligent, responsible, location-aware, mobile, and distributed sensors in order to monitor and report local crimes and generate crime data. Analysis of such data can be substantially helpful in crime management within Tehran. Therefore, the objective of this study is to develop a VGI-based system as a means for crime management in District # 22 of Tehran. Using this system, citizens and police departments can accurately report and analyze various information such as precise location, type, photo, date and time. Citizens’ feedbacks indicate that the system is easy-to-use (highly 55%, very highly 31%), suitable for reporting and presenting crime data (highly 90%) and reducing crime rates (highly 40%, very highly 35%), all the while providing an attractive user interface (highly 25%, moderately 45%). However, most citizens stated that the system is highly dependent in its need for prior knowledge (highly 75%). On the other hand, evaluation results by police departments show that the system facilitates the entire crime management process

Business · Community policing · Computer security · Data science · Geographic information system · Geography · Internet privacy · Management system · Operations management · Political science · Public relations · Volunteered Geographic Information · Computer Science · Data Management and Algorithms · Engineering · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

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