På Plats - En undersökning om hur polisens plats-baserade arbete kan utvecklas med hjälp av GIS

Sammanfattning: This thesis examines the significance of GIS for the Swedish police department’s location-based work and what opportunities GIS have to change their definition of the concepts of place and hot spots. To investigate this a conceptual framework consisting of theories of place, hotspots and the criminological theories and concepts routine activity theory, situational crime prevention and problem oriented policing has been used. Furthermore the method and material consists of interviews with Swedish police and GIS-analysis where abuse and damage in the public spaces of Malmö have been transformed into hot spots on roads. The conclusion of this work is that GIS could have a great significance for the Swedish police department’s location-based work. If interactive hot spot maps of crime were implemented in the police cars there is a chance that it would improve their work with crime prevention. Hot spot maps could also have an impact on how the Swedish police define the concepts of place and hot spots where the maps give them new experiences of places and hot spots based on current statistics rather than the personal experiences they often use today.