Business analytics software aims to cut gun crime
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A European Union funded project to investigate ways to improve the fight against gun crime has created a prototype using business analytics software from SAS.
Sheffield Hallam University is coordinating the Project?Odyssey programme. It includes the establishment of a research and development (R&D) project to improve?cross border collaboration between law enforcement agencies.
Project Odyssey aims to develop a database through which gun crime data can be shared. Law enforcement officers will be able to use SAS software to search across national crime databases. The query will return relevant matches across Europe. The technique is similar to how SAS is used in banks for fraud detection.
Crimes committed in different European countries often involve the same weapons but it currently takes months to establish any links between crimes. This is because different countries use different technology to record information about guns used in crimes and different data formats to store information. This means it is impossible to find matches through computers. ?They had no way of looking into other country systems,? said Joann Taylor, director in SAS?s public security unit.
Currently officers and other law enforcement workers must travel overseas to carry-out tests on ballistics to see if the match. This prevents law enforcement agencies from reducing gun crime which is becoming an increasing problem. Taylor said: ?There is more and more anecdotal evidence that guns are coming into Europe and being used in multiple crimes across the continent.?
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