Fighting crime has posture incredible difficulties to the law enforcement agencies. Crime being an act against the law of a society is a danger to the prosperity of the people and thusly, requires productive and efficient monitoring. Portable processing gadgets can be used as a feasible vehicle for the utilization of the Geo-Locational Information System to recognize, capture, and indict guilty parties. This study, therefore, developed an android crime reporting system, which coordinates the Google Map/Places APIs in reporting a crime to a nearby police station. It gives options to report crime through an App-To-App call, audio recording, and sending images of the crime scene. The developed application has proven to be effective (when compared to the existing method of reporting a crime) in terms of timely intervention to a crime scene by law enforcement agencies and the confidentiality of the person reporting the crime.
Keywords: Crime Reporting System, Android Location-Based Crime, Google Map API Crime Report, Crime Prevention
JEL Classification: 035
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Timothy, Moses, An Android Location-Based Crime Reporting System Using the Google Map Api (September 9, 2020). UNIVERSITY OF PITESTI SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN : ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTERS SCIENCE, Vol.20, Issue 1, 2020 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3689762
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