Assessing The Impact Of Information Technology On The Gathering Of Crime Intelligence By DCI Investigators
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Date
2018Author
Sigilai, Charity Jebet Rop
Type
ThesisLanguage
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The 21st century is fraught with innumerable challenges to policing emanating from
emergent and mutating forms of criminal acts ranging from terrorism to organized crime
and entrepreneurial crime. While traditionally, the predominant strategy employed by law
enforcement agencies especially in regard to crime prevention and crime response has
been centered on motorized preventive patrol and response to calls for service, recent
technological developments as well as the evolution of crime and contemporary concerns
over new and mutating forms of crime have created new technological problems and
demands for police, as has the growth of cyber-crime.
Against this background therefore, this study sought to assess the impact of information
technology on policing using the case of intelligence gathering on crime in the
Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Kenya’s National Police Service by examining
the extent to which information technology has impacted on crime intelligence gathering,
mapping and analysis, crime prevention, improved quantity and quality of evidence and
security of police officers. The study used stratified sampling technique. The choice of
stratified sampling was informed by the fact that there was a need to identify officers
involved in crime intelligence gathering and/or those who have information on the study
as well as their ranking within the DCI.
The study employed the broken window theory to examine the impact of information
technology on policing owing to its emphasis on the fact that crime and all its negative
consequences can be prevented and if one of the factors leading to crime, that of the
policing end, can be addressed by the adoption of information technology. The study
adopted a case study approach and data was collected using both quantitative and
qualitative data collection methods. The data was collected, coded and analyzed using the
statistical packages for the social sciences (SPSS) programme.
The key findings were that information technology has enabled DCI to use information
systems to sieve out useful and non-useful intelligence, that it has enabled law
enforcement agents to source crime intelligence more effectively; made their crime
intelligence collection work easier and helped them cope with the amount of intelligence
police need to do their work effectively. Lastly information technology has increased
crime intelligence mapping and analysis within the Directorate of Criminal
Investigations
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University of Nairobi
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