Police Information Cloud

Increasing variety of the information sources and products in web, insufficiency of some motor searches, necessity of the coherence of information, the need to standard models and framework for reviewing the information all have confronted the police managers with new challenges in controlling crimes and criminals.The present study tries to help police use an approach named “Information Cloud” to get a full control over the process of crime completion and its control. This is an applied descriptive study. First, the process of formation of information cloud is clarified, then the current status of I.R.I police information banks, the extent to which the officers are familiar with them, and the indices for the appropriate model of information cloud are elaborated on. Questionnaire was used to collect the required data. The findings demonstrat that a Coherent information system is a necessity. Police information cloud is proposed as the police most appropriate strategy in dealing with the present challenges.