HIT-NET – an information system enabling integration and visualisation of HITs in the DNA and fingerprint databases in conjunction with the criminal data concerning crimes and their perpetrators

Abstract

Information is an extremely important element of a successful fight with and prevention of crime. Comprehensive use of the information collected by the Police on crimes, their perpetrators and traces left at incident scenes is a guarantee of crime detection and, as a result, an improvement in the level of safety and public order. The originators of the HIT-NET system appreciate the great potential in the databases operating in the Police, in particular forensic databases. The basis of the concept of the designed IT system was to provide an effective IT tool allowing to indicate the relationship between hits found in DNA and fingerprint databases, and then link them with criminal data. The system being under creation makes it possible to find relationships as well as analyse and graphically visualise the identified networks of connections between people, traces and crimes, together with their presentation on a map.