Data Mining at the West Midlands Police: A Study of Bogus Official Burglaries

摘要

Bogus Official burglaries refer to crimes where a person(s) gains access to a premises by deception with the intention of stealing property. Experience has shown that such offenders tend to commit several similar crimes. The offender(s) may also be active across a wide geographical region covered by different Police areas. That, together with the sheer volume of such crimes makes it very difficult for the Police to link crimes together in order in order to form composite descriptions of offender(s) and identify patterns in their activities.