A web-based criminal record system using mobile device: A case study of Hat Yai municipality

Mobile devices, such as smartphone or tablet, have become an important part of human life. The mobile positioning capability, the service that identify the location of mobile device, has become a captivate feature used in various applications such as check-in function in the social network. Likewise, for the police duty, the record of the crime location is important to reveal the distribution area of crime, which can be used to analyze and plan for the future crime prevention. Therefore, this study proposes the web-based criminal record system aims to improve the traditional system of Hat Yai police station. The proposed application facilitates the police to record the location of crime using location-based services embedded in the mobile device. Moreover, police can capture the files such as images using camera or sound using sound recording. The crime record can be submitted to the data center through the secure network connection using HTTPS. The prototype was developed using HTML5 based on hybrid-platform development concept which compatible with the well-known mobile operating systems. The data stored in the data center can be used to generate the various types of reports such as crime mapping. For the future works, the data will be used to analyze using data mining techniques such as crime mapping analysis or time series analysis, which is useful for the police in the future crime prevention.