Police will test as early as 2015 in North Rhine-Westphalia analysis software: With … – Westfalen-Blatt

Dusseldorf (WB / mba / dpa). An analysis software, to be predicted with the slump is tested as early as 2015 in NRW. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA).

The so-called Predictive Policing (predictive policing), data on previous offender and crime scenes with current observations such as weather, traffic volumes, vehicle movements, car park assignments and calling card uses adjusted. The investigators conclude from regularly occurring matches where a band could strike and take the perpetrators there in the best case in reception. Also online networks such as Facebook and Twitter should be evaluated for it.

First, the software should be tested in Cologne and Duisburg. The start of 2015 to begin the tender for the pilot project, said Frank Scheulen, Speaker of the LCA. Probably several software vendors will participate. Scheulen assumes that the software in the summer is used. “The project will be scientifically evaluated, also with external experts,” said the spokesman LKA. After a successful test all 47 police authorities would come in NRW with the forecasting model is still unclear. According Scheulen the use of the software is to be expanded in the medium term – for example, to the area of ​​street crime

In Zurich already constitutes a police such software.. When police officers there fed the system with the latest crime data, it spits out by means of algorithms of its forecasts. In them, the behavior of professional burglars reflects: “People leave patterns,” says social scientist Thomas Schweer (54) from Oberhausen, who has the software that is used in Zurich developed. In the areas that would analyze the burglaries have decreased by 30 percent. In ten years, such computer programs would be standard, predicts Schweer. Even with the Privacy Policy, there appears to be no more problems. As long as no personal data would be collected, there were no reservations, said a spokeswoman for the NRW data protection officer.

Police and Ministry of Interior see an urgent need for action, because the number of burglaries in NRW again last year by 1.5 percent has risen to 54,953 cases. This is the highest number in 19 years. In OWL, the number of burglaries in 2013 declined, however. Only in the District of Herford, it rose slightly by 0.6 percent.