ICT has developed crime prevention in a variety of different ways, this has benfited the society as it's helping police forces to find the criminals.One of the biggest impacts its used on is the internet, this has helped discover internet criminals that are trying to plant viruses etc.
The police service has seen ICT as a major driving force to improve differnt methods and efficeny. Numerous officers have been trained or being trained effectivly to use ICT at all the levels in order to ensure police service takes advantage of all the benfits that can be gained from its use. ICT now affects every job within a policing force, for example: a community street officer can now type up reports using a vareity of different softwars. Clear, sercure, digitial radio systems have had a huge impact as it allows polices officers to communicate between mobile officers and officers that are at the headquaters.
At a higher policing level biometric databases have been used, this allows the police force to take a finger print and storing it on this database, for a long period of time. This helps police forces link crimes as they can attach a criminals fingerprint to previous crimes where they may have not been caught but would now be fined and put in prision for.
Another key feature the police force gather a vast amount of information from is Digital video and CCTV, as well as more sophisticated computerised forensic analysis.
Speed cameras are very similar to traffic cameras in the way that the monitor what is on the roads and the way in which the work. However speed cameras are completely automatic. If they detect someone speeding over the set speed limit in the particular area, a picture of the license plate is taken. A computer then works out what the registration number is and is automatically sent to the computer database on the main server and finds the address that corresponds with the licence. The appropriate fine is then sent to the address.
This is very beneficial to the police as it means that the officers can spend time doing other work instead of watching for speeders. Also a computer works a lot faster than a human when dealing with data. This process is all done by the computer so also allows the officer to not worry about any problems of speeding infront of cameras. This means that while a human could fall behind in issuing the fines the computer will always stay up to date. Also computers make mistakes a lot more rarely than human, provided they have been programmed properly. Traffic and speed cameras both work well because there is not a known way of obscuring the license plates while still making it readable for a human.
Video of a way that police are trying to reduce crime via the internet.
This is a screenshot of the homepage of the metropolitan police website. They have a key section of crime prevention as they are trying to reduce the amount of crime. This shows the vareity of differenet crimes they are ready to prevent and this is an effective online way that people from the public can report crimes. This will help reduce the amount of crimes that occur as people will be informing police of more crimes as the police aren't inhumane and cant be aware of all crimes, this helps them be aware of them all and develop new ways to get witnesses from the scene oh just a general report.
Although the internet has been beneficial in many ways of stopping crime it has also resulted in more crimes being performed. A primary example of this is people posting information on social networks such as facebook and twitter. This causes problems as people post status’s such as ‘going on holiday for two weeks see you soon’ or ‘going out for the day’, This is a prime time for burglaries to occur as people sometimes have their address on facebook etc from his the burglar will be able to come round knowing that you’re not there.
Another disadvantage that the internet has led to in reference with crime is that its made it easier for hackers to access restricted files. This would be done a person who is going to hack into the secure network and take important files that allow them access to certain information. This could cause some major issues in the worst case it could have an impact on national security and put the nation at risk, to solve this it can take alot of money and time to restore this files and find the person who is trying to hack the system. Hackers are becoming a big problem to general public users and causing serious problems to their computers by sending viruses etc.
. Most computer crime is conducted by "insiders", especially computer security types who are very familiar with the weaknesses of computer systems.
So THE most important computer crime prevention measure is a strong internal controls policy, including background investigations, disclosure of income sources, personal observations of spending habits, etc.
You can also log employee computer use for unusual patterns (this nabs many low level types).
2. Passwords are the primary means of enforcing computer security and the most effective. And using another person's password is still the best way to breach computer security.
Make sure people know they should NEVER reveal their password to anybody. System administrators can "reset" a password to a new password, but even they cannot read a user's password on a computer system.
3. "Trojan Horse" attacks bypass all computer security measures, since the victim actively participates in the breach of security. It works as effectively today as it did in the Greek siege of Troy thousands of years ago.
A good one is to send a message saying the victim has lots of money in an account, and needs to provide information to access it. This plays on the greed of the victim, and encourages them to keep their mouth shut out of embarassment when they get scammed.
To mitigate this attack, computer security education is utilized within government. Just circulating a list of computer crime scams can be very effective.
The absolute most egregious computer crimes are never reported outside the victimized agency, because it would alert copy cats how to pull off the scam, and destroy all confidence anyone has in that particular company or agency.
. Most computer crime is conducted by "insiders", especially computer security types who are very familiar with the weaknesses of computer systems.
So THE most important computer crime prevention measure is a strong internal controls policy, including background investigations, disclosure of income sources, personal observations of spending habits, etc.
You can also log employee computer use for unusual patterns (this nabs many low level types).
2. Passwords are the primary means of enforcing computer security and the most effective. And using another person's password is still the best way to breach computer security.
Make sure people know they should NEVER reveal their password to anybody. System administrators can "reset" a password to a new password, but even they cannot read a user's password on a computer system.
3. "Trojan Horse" attacks bypass all computer security measures, since the victim actively participates in the breach of security. It works as effectively today as it did in the Greek siege of Troy thousands of years ago.
A good one is to send a message saying the victim has lots of money in an account, and needs to provide information to access it. This plays on the greed of the victim, and encourages them to keep their mouth shut out of embarassment when they get scammed.
To mitigate this attack, computer security education is utilized within government. Just circulating a list of computer crime scams can be very effective.
The absolute most egregious computer crimes are never reported outside the victimized agency, because it would alert copy cats how to pull off the scam, and destroy all confidence anyone has in that particular company or agency.
The prisoners causing trouble on Facebook
Like many of its 350 million users worldwide, jailed underworld boss Colin Gunn used his Facebook account to let his friends know what was on his mind.
Gunn, a big-time Nottingham gangster who ordered the revenge killings of John and Joan Stirland, threatened: "I will be home one day and I can't wait to look into certain people's eyes and see the fear of me being there."
An inquest opened this week to determine whether police corruption contributed to the Stirlands' death. They were gunned down at their bungalow in Lincolnshire in 2004. Gunn had set up his Facebook profile in November, claiming prison authorities had relaxed their attitude towards him after he had served part of his sentence in Whitemoor jail, Cambridgeshire, the Sunday Times reported at the weekend.
The Ministry of Justice says prisoners are banned from using social networking sites, and his page was closed by Facebook for violating its policies.
But Gunn is the latest in a line of convicted criminals who have used social networking sites to abuse victims and boast about life in prison.
Taunting victims
Last month, Jade Braithwaite, jailed for knifing to death Ben Kinsella, 16, used the site to taunt his victim's family.
The 20-year-old boasted he was "down but not out" and wanted a remote control so he could "mute or delete people when I need to".
Manchester gangster Domenyk Noonan, also known as Lattlay-Fottfoy, 45, was believed to have used a smuggled mobile telephone to add photos and comments to his webpage.
And prolific burglar Roy Boodle, 28, taunted detectives on Facebook for 18 months saying that he could not be caught. But he was and was jailed for three-and-a-half years. Earlier this month, relatives of victims of violent crime called for the introduction of electronic anti-social behaviour orders, or "e-Asbos" to stop convicted killers bragging online.
 Braithwaite was jailed for life for killing Ben Kinsella |
A group including Mr Kinsella's sister, actress Brooke, plus relatives of murdered teenagers Jimmy Mizen and Rob Knox revealed how they had been tormented online.
They have posted their petition on the Downing Street website and attracted 742 signatures.
Ben's father George told ITV: "Ben's sisters, younger sisters, look at Facebook regularly and my wife found it very distressing to read some of the comments that were being put on there on virtually a daily basis."
The Mizens said they saw a message posted on Twitter which said altar boy Jimmy was a "pathetic loser".
Barry Mizen, whose son Jimmy died when he was attacked in a bakery in Lee, south-east London, said the family were also "bullied" via Facebook.
He told the programme: "We're basically being intimidated, we're being bullied by this site, by the things that were being said. I found it very distressful - our children, my wife etc, all put in complaints directly to Facebook. There is an option on there to do that. And nothing." Censoring letters
David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, said there has always been concern about prisoners gaining access to the outside world.
"When I first worked in the prison service in 1984 there was concern about letters. We were still censoring prisoners' letters, someone would go through every single letter with a black felt-tip pen," he said.
"Then it was giving prisoners access to phones, with anxiety about who they were talking to and what they were saying. Now there's the same issue with mobiles and the internet." He said there should not be a "knee-jerk reaction" to these incidents, as it was important to allow prisoners to communicate.
 Scanner: Now used in every prison in England and Wales |
"We get a lot of intelligence about crime from prisoners. The amount gathered through phone calls being monitored is staggering. There's a real benefit from monitoring what they're saying," he said.
He said there were also social and educational reasons for giving prisoners access to the outside world.
"Whether you like it or not, every single prisoner, with the exception of 34 (serving whole life terms), are going to come back into the community and when they come out they should be better trained and educated with more skills. We do this so that by having these skills they are less likely to reoffend."
So what can be done? It's thought that in all of these cases, prisoners were using mobile phones illicitly smuggled into prisons, which is an issue the prison service has been attempting to tackle for many years.
According to Ministry of Justice figures, prison officers found 3,910 mobiles and 4,189 sim cards during 2008. In 2006, they came across 2,272 mobile phones.
Strict rules
Every prison in England and Wales is using a special body scanning device to search visitors and inmates for concealed sim cards. The Prison Service says it is also testing a system to block the signals of mobile phones it cannot uncover, without disrupting the signals of phones used by ordinary people beyond prison walls.
Facebook says it takes the safety of its users very seriously and content which is intimidating, hateful or threatening is not tolerated and is removed.
 |  We will not hesitate to refer to the police any published material that appears to breach the law  Jack Straw Justice Secretary |
"If anyone has concerns about the way an individual is using Facebook and believes this poses a threat to others, we strongly encourage them to report this to us for investigation by our dedicated user support team," a spokeswoman said.
The Ministry of Justice said it was "extremely concerned" prisoners were able to update Facebook and other social networking sites either through illicit technology or via outside contacts.
It said serving prisoners do not have access to the internet, except for educational purposes, when access is closely monitored by staff.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced a clampdown on prisoners accessing the sites, following the revelation of Gunn's comments.
"I am also hoping to meet with Ofcom, Facebook, victims' representatives and other government departments with an interest in this area to identify a solution to what is an issue of considerable concern to myself, victims and their families, and many members of the public.
"We will not hesitate to refer to the police any published material that appears to breach the law." This article tells us how facebook can cause problems and lead to serious issues and gets out of proportion easily.
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