Griffith University researchers are analysing more than one million Queensland crimes to forecast where future crime hotspots are likely to occur.
The research is made possible by an Australian-first $1 million research facility – the Social Analytics Lab (SAL), launched by the Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services Mark Ryan and Queensland Police Service Commissioner Ian Stewart APM at Mt Gravatt campus.
The custom-built research facility combines high-performance computing facilities with industry standard security.
It allows sensitive, de-identified administrative data to be stored and studied using advanced analytics to reveal patterns and insights from large complex government agency data.
In one of the first projects to be run in the lab, researchers will use crime data recorded over the past 10 years to identify patterns in burglary and car crime that could inform operational policing.
Predictive policing expert Dr Daniel Birks said burglary and car crime, two types of crime affecting many people, cost
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