Project

proposal on
crime
investigation
-an Android
app
ABSTRACT
In today’s world, crime is considered to be one of the major issues part of which remains
unsolved. As well as missing of number of persons has also been a matter of concern.

The main concept of our project is to develop an Android application that will serve as a
platform for getting the details about the crimes and missing persons.

This app “Saavadhaan” basically deals with the crime. For any kind of illegal activities taking
place in our area, this system has two kinds of activities that can be registered or filed; crime
report and missing report. By this app people will be informed about the current status of the
complaint registered. This app makes itself very innovative where any user gets information
about the crime or missing report file. This system has both admin and the user module. The user
files the crime or missing reports whereas the admin gets all the complaints, missing cases or
crimes and updates the current status about it. The user here need not register to check for
missing peoples or crimes taking place in his area.

This application can be a suitable platform for every individual willing to help. As every
individual gets equal chances to participate, this application helps to solve criminal issues at
local level.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

The issues regarding crimes and missing of people has been emerging in the present context.
Although many methods have been implemented to present these problems in the global world, it
still has not been effective so far. The reason may be lack of exposure to such platforms because
of which only limited cases has been opened up. These issues brought us to the concept of this
application. Our goal is to make sure that every criminal activity as well as missing cases
happening in every part of our country is exposed such that every individual willing to help gets
a chance to do so.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

 Provide direct technical support to local law enforcement

 Develop and support programs and services that target the reduction of the incidence and
consequences of family violence, including domestic violence and child victimization.
 Reducing the number of people who go missing, including through prevention strategies,
 Reducing the harm to those who go missing and close cases as quickly as possible at a
local and national level.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

Plainly speaking, crime prevention is recognizing that a crime risk exists and taking some
corrective action to eliminate or reduce that risk. Crime prevention means risk reduction. This
project will be a significant endeavor in the sense that it reduces crimes and will definitely be
saving people’s lives. This project will also provide a platform for those willing to help.

By addressing the factors that may lead to crime, “Saavadaan” affects the fear and perception of
crime as well as the actual prevalence of crime. If members of the community are participating in
crime prevention, their perception and fear of crime may reduce.

.This app makes itself very innovative where any user gets information about the crime or
missing report file. Furthermore this app will be updated frequently with added locations and
extra details about the cases filed.

In addition, this application also insures to provide a secure living to people with its frequent
development. This application is expected to help people in Nepal where crime reports are not
addressed on time.
METHODOLOGY

Android platform will be used to develop the “saavadaan” application. This application will be
developed using the Android Studio. It will also be dealing with various programming languages
such as Java, XML, and Structured Query Language (SQL). The graphics related activities like
logo; images will be created and edited using graphics software like Adobe Photoshop and
Adobe Illustrator.

PROPOSED TOOLS

The software this project will be dealing with is described below:

1) Android Studio:

Android Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for

Android platform development. It is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X and
Linux and replaced Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT) as Google's primary IDE
for native Android application development. [1]

2) JDK:

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is an implementation of either one of the Java
Platform, Standard Edition, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java Platform, Micro
Edition platforms released by Oracle Corporation in the form of a binary product aimed
at Java developers on Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X or Windows.[3] It consists of a runtime
environment that "sits on top" of the operating system layer as well as the tools and
programming that developers need to compile, debug, and run applets and applications
written in the Java language.[2]
3) PHP:

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also
used as a general-purpose programming language. It stands for PHP: Hypertext
Preprocessor. PHP code can be simply mixed with HTML code, or it can be used in
combination with various engines and web frameworks. PHP code is usually processed
by a PHP interpreter, which is usually implemented as a web server's native module.[3]

4) MYSQL:
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).
The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of
the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.
MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications, and is a central
component of the widely used LAMP open-source web application software stack (and
other "AMP" stacks). [4]

5) Android Language:

Android software development is the process by which new applications are

created for the Android operating system. Applications are usually developed in Java
programming language using the Android Software Development Kit (SDK), but other
development environments are also available. Android is a software stack for mobile
devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android
SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the
Android platform using the Java programming language.[5]
LITERATURE STUDY

Everyone is aware about the fact that crime and missing person rates is increasing day by day.
Due to lack of information sharing Medias only few cases reaches to people. Though “Nepal
Television” has been exhibiting this information since a long time, it has not been that effective.
The support from the local level is supposed to be very crucial for helping the people find the
missing person and also report to the crimes that are in existence in our locality.

According to the Search and Coordination Section under the Crime Investigation Department of
Nepal Police, the number of persons missing is on an increasing trend. Nepal Police recorded as
many as 5,168 missing complaints in the fiscal 2013/14 compared to 5,683 in 2014/15 and 5,957
in 2015/16, according to an official figure.

Over 80 per cent of missing persons are women and children, mostly in the age group of 16 to 25
years. Despite complaints with police, rigorous search by grieving families and broadcast and
publication of information about missing persons, whereabouts of 14,107 persons still remain
unknown. With slight increase in missing cases, the number of traced persons has also gone up
over the years.

Of the missing persons, 415 were traced in 2013/14 against 846 in 2014/15 and 1,440 in 2015/16.
The SCS initiates search and rescue operation on the basis of official documents, name, sex,
physical description and distinguishing feature and photograph of the missing victims by
circulating information to all police units throughout the country.[6]

As much as 32.11 per cent of crimes were committed during the fiscal 2015-16 between noon and
6 p.m., followed by 28.79 per cent for the next six hours till midnight, with consecutively
decreasing rates of crime for the remaining chunks of six hours until noon. Officials attribute the
highest crime rate in the afternoon to alcohol.
So, we came up a plan for this application for effective searching of missing people as well as for
reporting the crime so that every individual becomes cautious and more aware about the events
taking place.

DELIVERABLES

The application we are going to develop is supposed to provide an easy way for the users willing
to help. The expected system interface is given below:

Figure 1: Home screen of the proposed project

Figure 2: Login screen of the proposed project

Figure 3: Sign up page of the proposed project

 Figure 4: Inner page of the proposed project

TIME SCHEDULE

This project is expected to be completed within 3 months in the following sequence:

Week 1 Requirements
Week 2 Design and Architecture
Week 3 Design and Architecture
Week 4 Design and Architecture
Week 5 Development and Coding
Week 6 Development and Coding
Week 7 Development and Coding
Week 8 Development and Coding
Week 9 Quality assurance and software testing
Week 10 Quality assurance and software testing
 Week 11 Implementation
Week 12 Implementation
Week 13 Maintenance and support
Week 2-14 Documentation

Maintenance and Support

Implementation

Quality assurance and Software Testing

Development and Coding

Design and Architecture

Requirements

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5

Number of weeks

Fig: Showing timetable in bar diagram

REFERENCES

1. Android studio

[1]"Android Studio", En.wikipedia.org, 2017. [Online]. Available:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio.

2. Java development kit

[2]"Java Development Kit", En.wikipedia.org, 2017. [Online]. Available:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Development_Kit.

3. PHP

[3]"PHP", En.wikipedia.org, 2017. [Online]. Available:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

4. My SQL

[4]"MySQL",En.wikipedia.org, 2017. [Online]. Available:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL.

5. Android Languages

[5]"Android software development", En.wikipedia.org, 2017. [Online]. Available:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_software_development.

6. Literature review
[6]"You are being redirected...", Thehimalayantimes.com, 2017. [Online]. Available:
https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/16808-persons-go-missing-three-years.

7. Literature review

[7]]"You are being redirected...", Thehimalayantimes.com, 2017. [Online]. Available:

https://thehimalayantimes.com/opinion/editorial-dealing-crime.