Big Data-Driven Smart Policing: Big Data- Based Patrol Car Dispatching

Big Data has become one of the buzzwords today. The recentexplosion of digital data has led the organization, either private orpublic, to a new era towards a more efficient decision making. Atsome point, business decided to use that concept in order to learnwhat make their clients tick with phrases like ‘sales funnel’analysis, ‘actionable insights’, and ‘positive business impact’. So,it stands to reason that Big Data was viewed through green (read:money) colored lenses. Somewhere along the line, howeversomeone realized that collecting and processing data doesn’t haveto be for business purpose only, but also could be used for otherpurposes to assist law enforcement or to improve policing or in roadsafety. This paper presents briefly, how Big Data have been used inthe fields of policing order to improve the decision making processin the daily operation of the police. As example, we present a BigData driven system which is sued to accurately dispatch the patrolcars in a geographic environment. The system is also used toallocate, in real-time, the nearest patrol car to the location of anincident. This system has been implemented and applied in theEmirate of Abu Dhabi in the UAE.

کلیدواژه ها:

Big Data ، patrol car allocation ، dispatching ، GIS