A HOLISTIC FRAMEWORK FOR CRIME PREVENTION, RESPONSE, AND ANALYSIS WITH EMPHASIS ON WOMEN SAFETY USING TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETAL PARTICIPATION

Abstract

Ensuring women’s safety in smart
cities is a need of the hour. Even though
several legal and technological steps are
adopted worldwide, women’s safety
continues to be an international concern.
Criminal records are maintained by law
enforcement agencies and are most often not
available to the public in an easily
comprehensible form. While some wearable
devices and mobile applications are
available which are touted to aid in ensuring
women’s safety, they utilize limited societal
intervention and are not very efficient in
ensuring the safety of the women as and
when required. Most often the crime
response, crime analysis, and crime
prevention schemes are not integrated,
leading to gaps in ensuring women’s safety.
Our major contribution is in developing a
holistic system encompassing the three
crucial aspects, i.e crime analysis and
mapping, crime prevention, and emergency
response by leveraging societal participation
for women safety management. This work
applies the Geographic Information System
(GIS) for the identification of hotspots and
patterns of crime. The proposed system uses
data generated from the mobile application
and/or wearable gadget prototyped as a part
of this work along with the criminal history
records for crime response, analysis, and
prevention. The system for the hotspot
identification is demonstrated for the Pilani
town in the Jhunjhunu district in the state ofRajasthan, India, and can be easily scaled up
geographically and utilized as a safety
strategy for smart cities. While the common
man is provided a costeffective solution via
the developed mobile application or
wearable gadget, the various components are
integrated into a website for supervisory
management and can be utilized by law
enforcement agencies.