Solutions company ST Group is assisting the police in preparing for the 2010 Fifa World Cup by rolling out a solution that analyses crime and crowd control.
Pitney Bowes Business Insight's MapInfo Crime Profiler is a fully automated crime analysis solution for police forces and security companies. It helps the police analyse violent crimes such as hijacking and armed robbery as well as financial fraud in the banking, insurance and telecommunications sectors.
ST Group is a local partner of Pitney Bowes. Alan Ellis, CEO of ST Group, says the analysis tool will be used to manage public transport safety and crowd control at events. He notes that this is critical, considering the Fifa World Cup is on SA's doorstep.
"The efficiency gains from using MapInfo Crime Profiler and its applications such as crime profiling, crowd control, public safety and transport control, particularly in relation to the Fifa World Cup in SA in 2010, are very considerable.
"MapInfo Crime Profiler is expected to play a major role in helping improve not only public safety and crowd management, but also policing effectiveness in SA," Ellis adds. "As a result, we are now able to assist local authorities and the private sector to better understand and more effectively respond to the nature and scale of crime in their neighbourhoods and in their businesses."
An ST Group statement says crime analysis and mapping have become essential tools for effective law enforcement. They not only aid detection rates, but also support operational efficiency, management reporting and other enterprise-wide tasks.
According to the company, crime mapping tools that automate basic statistical processing tasks enable crime analysts to provide critical support in investigations and operations. MapInfo Crime Profiler automates the statistical legwork behind crime analysis and visualisation, allowing the police to perform sophisticated analyses more quickly and easily through an intuitive dashboard interface, it adds.
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