Data Mining Practices for Effective Investigation of Crime

This research paper highlights the importance of data mining technology to design proactive services to reduce crime incidences in the police stations jurisdiction. Crime investigation has very significant role of police system in any country. Almost all police stations use the CIPA system to store and retrieve the crimes and criminal data and subsequent reporting. It become useful for getting the criminal information but it does not help for the purpose of designing an action to prevent the crime. It has become a major challenge for police system to detect and prevent crimes and criminals. There is no any kind of information is available before happening of such criminal acts and it result into increasing crime rate. The presented paper highlights the use of data mining techniques for effective investigation of crimes.