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ABSTRACT

The lack of Crime Reporting platform for the Ghana Police service has resulted in a state where there is no seamless flow of information between the various police departments and the general public. Crime reporting system project is a Web based app developed for recording, monitoring and maintaining various criminal activities. With an increase in the number of criminals and crimes, the law enforcement is becoming a major concern for authorities. We can improve the law and order by automating some function of the current system which is manual. Online Crime reporting system project will play a key role in minimizing human strain and errors. The main aim of this project is to design and implement a crime reporting system for the Ghana Police Service which will ensure efficient resolution to problems and challenges faced by the service. The objectives of this system are to create a platform for the general public to report their cases, to create view of missing persons and wanted persons, to create a form to record criminal cases, to create a form to record suspect information, to generate reports of the data stored in the database and to have a high level data and document protection. The system was developed by the use of the Waterfall model, interview as a method in the data collection approach was used to gain a thorough understanding of the Crime reporting system. Notepad++ and XAMPP were tools used in the designing of the system. Although the proposed system addressed the major issues, there still would be a need to recommend that there be more development to implement additional features such as attendance module, which could not be implemented due to time constraints or limitations faced by the Ghana police service.