ICTs based crime control model: An application based study of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Information and communication technology involves all those kinds of services which receive, manipulate, store, retrieve and transmit information in digital form [18]. Example is the personal computers, email, robots and digital television. In this research, the Authors have proposed a GIS based system for crime monitoring and information retrieval for Gilgit City. This web based GIS application provides information and monitoring facilities in crimes control. This system enables for retrieval of various analytical information relating to Geography, report for crime location and indicate crime occurrence scene, information about Law Enforcement Agencies, and the services area like educational, health, parking areas, communication, Banks, community centers, shopping Malls, NGO office, hostels, Bus and vagan stations and Apartments etc. The system enables building the maps dynamically at different levels like Mohallas (Towns) and shows the security cameras which mounte in different areas. This system also stores the relevant information in database such as postgresql/postgis and mapserver and publishes online for public.