Tryke: A Tricycle Driver Conduct Reporting Mobile Application

Abstract

Most crimes committed were unreported to the authorities. Given this fact, this paper presents the development of crime incidents reporting system with the use of Google Maps while exploiting the active participation of netizens. This provides another venue for reporting crime incidents. The idea draws its motivation from the inconvenience of going to the police station, personal belief in the weak investigative capabilities of the authorities to resolve petty crimes, and limited dissemination of crime information to the community from the authorities. The system used Google Maps to present crime information accessible through a browser. In this way, people may report crimes using a location pointed on the map before providing detailed information. It enables an automatic method for displaying information on the map because the respondents themselves identify the location. In addition, the system supports the idea of a witness; hence, other community members can also confirm a crime. This facility uses the idea of the “+1” or “like” method used by popular networking sites. The system is deployed for testing in the school, but the public can do reporting. This scope allows the researcher to get the evaluation of the respondents easily. Currently, the system is deployed for testing and evaluation.