Importance of Crime Data to Public Safety and an Effective Crime Prevention Planning

July 12, 2015

Author: sanjana rajora

Open government data portal is platform for sharing the dataset pertaining to different sectors through different ministries and departments. These dataset are available on free to be used by any individual or group for different purposes.  Different ministries and departments have shared many valuable dataset on the portal. The national crime record bureau department under ministry of home affair is sharing the crime data at different levels which gives insight about crime rate in India and can prove to be very helpful to analyse the cause of crime up to certain extent. One can get the data regarding the details of Cases registered under Cyber Crimes by Motives like: Revenge /Settling scores, Greed/ Money, Extortion, Cause Disrepute, Prank/ Satisfaction of Gaining Control, Fraud/ Illegal Gain, Eve teasing/ Harassment and Others. Similarly details of Cases registered under Cyber Crimes by Suspects like: Foreign National /Group, Disgruntled Employee /Employee, Cracker/Student/ Professional learners, Business Competitor, Neighbours/Friends and Relatives and Others can also be find. Dataset are also available based on person arrested under crime against women, Convict by type of IPC offence, convict by type of offence under special and local law etc. Not only this, one can also gather information about the prison inmates like how the government is helping them to become a good human through datasets like Prison Inmates Trained Under Different Vocational Trainings , Kinds Of Goods/Vocational Activities And Gross Value Of Goods Produced By Inmates, Details Of Wages Payments Of Prisoners, Details Of Prison Inmates Released On Parole etc. Hence the datasets available with wide categories which can be used differently to minimize the crime rate at all the level by combined efforts. With the updated Open crime data, the communities can make informed judgments about public safety and also provide transparency into how local police power is being exercised, on the contrary, local police can also use these statistics for making the strategies to control the situation. Knowing what crime happened and where it has happened, more often will help people to update the more public security issues. This data will also prove to be helpful for different agencies in addressing crime issues.

Follow the link below to access the NCRB datasets available on Open government data portal:

https://data.gov.in/catalogs#path=ministry_department/national-crime-records-bureau-ncrb