Role of Big Data Analysis in Crime Investigation

ABSTRACT

Recent technological advances in processing and analyzing large and complex data offer new opportunities and challenges for police and security agencies. This technique examines the use of large and varied data in three key areas: crime prevention, crime detection and national security. Law enforcement agencies and security agencies routinely collect large amounts of data in the course of their work preventing and detecting crime and gathering intelligence. The development of electronic communications has led to a large increase in the amount and type of data available about people and their activities that can be used by these agencies. The creation of large and complex structured and unstructured data  is known as ‘big data’.

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