Crime Investigation Monitoring and Public Security Information System for Sri Lanka Police

Abstract

Today, crime is being committed in more refined strategies and in a more structured form. To successfully manage such conditions, investigative organizations are likewise getting systematized in investigation strategies. In Sri Lanka, every year there are many pending and accused unknown case. The police department want to increase the efficiency of the investigative process to solve this problem. Implementation of Information Technology into a Police department and connect both police and public by the use of technology is priority one to increase the efficiency of the investigative process. This system connected the Police Headquarters, police stations, police officers, CID officers, and the public together. This system helps to get publics’ participation in the investigative process and speed up the investigation speed by the notable percentage. The system keeps logs of a case which includes case summary, people involved, disputes, past criminal history of those involved, complaints, complaints responses, police officer details and public users’ details This system handles the sensitive data. Hence the development process gave more priority to the data security. This system architecture providing a guarding against the most security threats. This system has been developed using PHP with MYSQL. Laravel 5.5 LTE framework is used for the developing framework. Laravel provides a powerful query system and better security as well. Addition to these mayor technologies, this system used other effective technologies like Bootstrap, Datatables, MailGun Mailing system, Twilio SMS System also. This system capable to generate various type of reports which are most important to the investigation process. The NIC number of the person is enough to know that person’s whole criminal history. This system was successfully verified and validated by the various types of testing including unit testing, integration testing, system testing, acceptance testing and usability testing. The testing results are used to the improvements of the system