Information Communication Technology and Police Administration: A Case Study of E-COPS (Electronic Computerized Operations of Police Services)
The Police perform a variety of duties ranging from the detection and prevention of crime and the keeping of law and order and public peace, to the regulation of traffic, the verification of the antecedents of citizens and immigrants for various official purposes and the execution of various orders of the judiciary. Many of these functions involve gathering, sharing and analyzing information about crime and people. Information technology has a crucial role to play in these functions since it can help in handling the ever increasing amount of information with reference to its systematic storage as well as the speed with which it can be retrieved, shared and analyzed for quicker and better decision support. Technology reduces the time the policeman spends on paperwork, legal formalities and administrative functions and frees him up to perform his primary tasks of keeping peace, and preventing and detecting crime with greater efficacy. By infusing transparency and efficiency into his functioning, it boosts his morale and improves the quality of his interactions with the members of the general public. It makes them more able and in the long run, more willing, to cooperate with him in maintaining peace and order in the society. After all, a good rapport with the civil society is a prerequisite to good policing in any society. Moreover, a sad reality of our times is that criminals and terrorists are well-networked and wellinformed, and equipped v/ith state-of-the-art technology. In order to fight them successfully, police have to be several notches ahead.
ICT Police Administration E-COPS
ZHANG Zhen CHENYi
School of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P. R. China, 611731
国际会议
2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)
印度海德拉巴
英文
448-453
2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）