Data mining based crime investigation systems: Taxonomy and relevance

The number of crime incidents that is reported per day in India is increasing dramatically. The criminals today use various advanced technologies and commit crimes in really tactful ways. This makes crime investigation a more complicated process. Thus the police officers have to perform a lot of manual tasks to get a thread for investigation. This paper deals with the study of data mining based systems for analyzing crime information and thus automates the crime investigation procedure of the police officers. The majority of these frameworks utilize a blend of data mining methods such as clustering and classification for the effective investigation of the criminal acts.