CRIME MAPPING AND HOT SPOT ANALYSIS USING GEOSPACIAL TECHNIQUES: A CASE OF AJMER CITY

摘要

The study aims to enable the Ajmer city police towards spatial crime mapping and demarcation of hot spot zones towards better crime prevention control. This macro level research may benefit and assist the police officials towards generating their surveillance plan and crime control strategy in the region. Its basic objective is to identify crime prone zones through crime mapping with probability of occurrence based on the past incidence of various crime locations. Then provide spatial crime hot spots so as police can plan better surveillance plan and scheduling so as to minimize crime incidences and take preventive action in short time based on minimum distance maps. As per the scope, it provides a spatial decision making system to Ajmer city police for better surveillance scheduling. The study also presents alarming results for the concerned administrative departments as it indicates some strong correlations between the socioeconomic parameters and crime sprawl.