The Tenth International Conference on Electronic Measurement & Instruments ICEMI’2011 ICTs Based Crime Control Model: An Application Based Study of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Sabit Rahim 1,2 Sun Tie 1 Afsana Begum 2 Bushra Naz 3 1.School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, USTB 100083, China; 2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Karakoram International University Gilgit, 15100, Pakistan; 3. Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan E-mail:sabit.rahim@kiu.edu.pk Abstract- Information and communication technology involves all those kinds of services which receive, manipulate, store, retrieve and transmit information in digital form [18]. Example is the personal computers, email, robots and digital television. In this research, the Authors have proposed a GIS based system for crime monitoring and information retrieval for Gilgit City. This web based GIS application provides information and monitoring facilities in crimes control. This system enables for retrieval of various analytical information relating to Geography, report for crime location and indicate crime occurrence scene, information about Law Enforcement Agencies, and the services area like educational, health, parking areas, communication, Banks, community centers, shopping Malls, NGO office, hostels, Bus and vagan stations and Apartments etc. The system enables building the maps dynamically at different levels like Mohallas (Towns) and shows the security cameras which mounte in different areas. This system also stores the relevant information in database such as postgresql/postgis and mapserver and publishes online for public. Keywords: MapServer, gmap, GIS, MS4W, postgis, postgresql. I. INTRODUCTION Information and communication technology is the usage of information for the need of human or it’s another purpose is to use of modern technology such as internet, and telecom, etc [17] . However, in an ever-changing world of Video-phones, mobile computing, blogs, Skype and OSS (open source software) perhaps; we should no longer just include the Internet, but leave the definition at contemporary devices [15] . In Pakistan the law enforcement agencies of big cities like Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore have recently started to install surveillance system for crime control, but still there is an initial stage. The applications of GIS are still in the way and have to work on it for crime control in Pakistan; mostly the private organizations are using GIS for planning the land, environment and Disaster Management [5] . The technologies for the law enforcement agencies are available today as ever before [1] . So the question is raised that which kind of ICT solution must be implemented that is right and within the budget of law enforcement agencies. Through GIS one can visualize, analyze and explain the criminal activities in a spatial context, and can draw physical layout of the area [1] . Another very important point of GIS application is that the area can be divided into different small cells and layers, which are included raster and vector data [3] . In one of the research, the researcher has proposed a logical model for the implementation of GIS in Indian police, the research also indicated the obstacles, opportunities, and action steps relevant to application of GIS technology and author also builds some strategies for its implementation in Indian police department [4] . In this research, the authors have designed a web based GIS application for law enforcement agencies, whose basic theme are to use open source software such Postgresql/postgis, GIS, Map Server and PHP for Web based application for crime control in Gilgit city and prepares the maps for Gilgit city. It also aims to indicate the various techniques of GIS and mapserver in crime control, which provides the facility to show raster and vector data of Gilgit City (Main roads, Link roads, Settlement areas, towns (Mohallas), Entertainment areas [19] , and other important areas), and helps the police department to view crime data from database and monitor the important security areas anytime anywhere. This study will be very helpful to Police department for patrolling and hotspots [21] . The rest of the paper is as following; in section two authors describe the methodology used, section three consists on proposed system model, section four includes result and discussion and the last section includes the conclusion. II. METHODOLOGIES A. Data Acquisition Methodology GIS data is being divided into two groups, spatial and attribute or non spatial [22] , so different methods are being used for obtaining the data.  Acquisition of Spatial Data It was obtained from GPS and Google Earth for Gilgit City boundary, roads etc.  Acquisition of Attribute and non Spatial Data The attribute data were directly obtained from field. The town (Mohalla), Settlement and roads attributes such as name, address and purpose were directly obtained from site. This process was done by personally visit to site with paper map of Gilgit city taken from Google Earth through which we identify individual plots on the paper map in the ___________________________________ 978-1-4244-8161-3/11/$26.00 ©2011 IEEE