DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CRIME MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CRIME MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

Background of the Study

This system was aimed at the implementation of a Criminal Management Information System. It is a database system in which the police keep the record of criminals who have been arrested, to be arrested, or escaped. This will help the police department in enhanced management of information. The main entities in the whole process include; the petitioner (the person who files a First Incident Report (FIR)), victim, accused or criminal, case, and investigating officer. The Criminal Management Information System keeps records of the petitioner, victim, accused, FIR, case and investigation officer entities. The system’s strengths lay in that it allows for storage of multiple data for a criminal. A weakness observed in the system however, is that it lacks in covering all the necessary entities required for a Criminal Management Information System built for the Nigeria Police Force, it has no interface; as only the database was designed, there is no proper distinction between an accused and the criminal in the system, there is no generation of crime analysis and report.

           Before the advent of the British, Traditional law enforcement had existed in Nigeria. When the British came, they accorded some sort of recognition to some of their ‘’police force’’ which were been used by the native rules to enforce their local laws and native judgment. However the first police force was established in 1861 by the British colonial administration in the territories known today as Nigeria. This 100-man contingent was essentially a consular protection force based in Lagos, which later became known as the “Hausa Force,” so-named after the ethnicity of the men recruited into the unit. As the British expanded their reach to the east and north, they formed additional police forces comprised largely of recruits from outside the communities in which they were to be deployed.

         These early forces were notorious for their abuses and general lawlessness. In 1891, the consul general of the Oil Rivers Protectorate in what is presently eastern Nigeria expressed shock at the “numerous acts of lawlessness and looting” by the police, who were commonly referred to in the community as the “forty thieves” in police uniform. Similarly, the governor of Lagos colony acknowledged in 1897 that the Hausa Force “no doubt behaved very badly in the hinterland by looting, stealing and generally taking advantage of their positions.” The primary purpose of the colonial police was to protect British economic and political interests. The police accomplished this objective through the often brutal subjugation of indigenous communities that resisted colonial occupation. The use of violence, repression, and excessive use of force by the police has characterized law enforcement in Nigeria ever since. The British merged Lagos colony and the southern and northern protectorates in 1913 and named the new colony Nigeria. The northern and southern regional police forces were later merged, in 1930, to form the colony’s first national police the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). The British also established local police forces under the control of traditional leaders.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CRIME MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

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