A Digital Decision Support System for Efficient Policing in Urban Security in a Community Policing Context

The community era of policing emphasizes the crime control function through a decentralized organization design. The diversification and evolution of crime made evident the value of citizen contribution towards its combating. The introduction of the directives of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection for Police and Criminal Justice Authorities (PCJA) call for privacy and security by design software implementations that preserve ownership to the data source and use by other bodies only under certain circumstances.