Intelligent criminal identification system

In many countries the amount of crime incidents that is reported per day is increasing dramatically. Concerning about Sri Lanka, The department of Police is the major organization of preventing crimes. In general, Sri Lankan police stations utilize paper-based information storing systems and they don´t employ computer based applications up to a great extent. Due to this utilization of paper-based systems police officers have to spend a lot of time as well as man power to analyze existing crime information and to identify suspects for crime incidents. So the requirement of an efficient way for crime investigation has arisen. Data mining practices is one aspect of crime investigation, for which numerous technique are available. This paper highlights the use of data mining techniques, clustering and classification for effective investigation of crimes. Further the paper aims to identify suspects by analyzing existing evidences in situations where any witness or forensic clues are not present.