Spatio-temporal Analysis of the Street Crime hotspots in faisalabad city of Pakistan

Abstract

The Geographic Information System has become an important and useful tool in the implementation of crime control and monitoring activities in crimes affected areas and it has the ability to examine spatial relationships of phenomena. The present study has been taken up for detecting the hotspots of street crimes and developing the crime control strategies in the Faisalabad city of Pakistan. The spatial patterns of urban street crimes were analyzed. The crime reports of 2012 were geocoded and the crime maps were prepared in ArcGIS 10. The strategic crime analysis was done in a series of meetings with police department and crime controlling strategies were built. The Compstat model with some modifications was followed for the accountability and performance management of the police department. Operational analysis was carried out for resource allocations and deployment. After implementing crime control strategies it has been observed that there was a remarkable reduction in the street crimes. The crime data of 2013 was plotted on map and the hotspot changing patterns were observed.