Geographical information system(GIS) is a new information technology that can be used to enhance the effectiveness of policing. It is used to identify the crime hot spots, trace the criminals, and develop the crime intervention schemes. The police of ...
Geographical information system(GIS) is a new information technology that can be used to enhance the effectiveness of policing. It is used to identify the crime hot spots, trace the criminals, and develop the crime intervention schemes. The police of the Western countries began to use GIS in policing in the last 20 years. The Korean police adopted GIS, but the use of GIS in policing has been very limited. GIS based crime analysis is a way to achieve the systematization of the police work scientifically.
This paper begins with an overview of GIS and some examples of crime mapping analytic methods. Based on suggested methods and cases, and with a descriptive sketch of the development process of GIS in the korea police, this paper discusses some technical and organizational issues for the advancement of the use of GIS. Also, this paper explores the problem of information in GIS. Introduction of new information technologies by the rapid growth of IT industries, especially GIS, has changed the citizens' lives. Technical improvement in handling information by national agencies has many problems such as possibilities of surveillance, supervision and control by the government.
Gathering information by police has great importance, and its role also is increasing. Police deal with individual's information more frequently than any other national agencies. Consequently, as necessities of information activity is expanding and gathering and processing the information is easier, the possibility that policing on individual information infringes on citizens' constitutional rights is becoming real.
Policing by the government is a kind of infringement. So, in order to gather and process individual's information we need to have legal bases on police enforcement. But we still don't have legally proper provisions.
We can't deny the necessities of gathering and processing individual's information by the police. Therefore, suitable provisions and legal bases for that should be maintained and prepared. As for the infringement by the police, I propose precisely prescribing the conditions and limits of information activities, and liability for violation in the related legislation on police enforcement.