IST: Role of GIS in crime mapping and analysis

In most recent years crime analysis has become a broad-spectrum term that needs a lot of research on crime analysis and crime mapping. Crime mapping and spatial analysis accompaniments all of them and plays an integral role in the intrinsically new form of crime representation, visualization and to respond satisfactorily to the problem of criminality. This research blends statistical methods (cluster analysis) and spatial models created with GIS, established on police crime reports. This paper puts on the diverse utilities of GIS to recognize the hot spots of crime in addition to encourage the advancement of investigation inclination strategy for policing. The functional approach in the present investigation for crime mapping can be successfully applied for improvement of user-interfaces stage for the advancement of safe city strategies.