JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Journal of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
ISSN: 1597-0396
DOI: 10.5987/UJ-JSMS
Email: jsms@universityjournals.org
POLICING NIGERIA: THE NEED FOR THE INTEGRATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) TECHNOLOGY MECHANISMS FOR EFFECTIVE CRIME CONTROL
DOI: 10.5987/UJ-JSMS.16.011.1 | Article Number: 92F55C11 | Vol.10 (3) - September 2015
Authors: ODIVWRI Erhurhu James and ABRAHAM Ubong Evans
Keywords: Police, Policing, GIS, Crime Control, Hot Spot, Surveillance
Nigeria is currently plagued by astronomical rise in a plethora of crimes and criminal activities. This is evidenced in the increasing spate of armed robbery, oil theft, kidnapping, terrorism, assassination and the likes. Different strategies have been employed to curtail the upsurge of this menace, but to no avail. The paper seeks to examine the role GIS technologies can play in the control of crimes in Nigeria. The paper points out that the deployment of GIS gadgets such as GPRS in urban and rural areas, particularly in hot spots, highways, parks, markets, border territories, schools and oil drilling sites in the Niger Delta creeks will no doubt help in the management and control of crimes through the creation of buffer zones in the country.