UP Police organises data analytics workshop for police across the state on "predictive policing"
New Delhi, September 12
The Uttar Pradesh Police organised a one-day workshop on data analytics for the plice force. Around 260 police officers participated from across the state.
Titled as the “predictive policing” workshop offered police personnel training in data analytics and crime mapping tools to ensure better law and order in the state.
The workshop saw participation from 68 gazetted officers and 192 non-gazetted officers who were informed about the tools available for data analytics.
DGP (UP)< Vijaya Kumar told media, "The training was held to achieve goals of predictive policing. We have a pattern of crime committed all over the year. If we analyse this data, we can know when, where and which type of crime might take place".
According to the officials, the participants were told about “event search” in which by entering a keyword such as robbery, theft and murder information can be sought, and about “event tracking” through which status of police vehicles can be found for any information received on the ‘112’ emergency number.
Through “event location analysis and hotspot (of crime) analysis”, personnel can determine a pattern of criminal activities, said the statement. ‘112’ wing has data of over 17 crore calls received in the last seven years as well as the tool to do analysis of this data, officials added.
