Authors :
Kenneth Longo Mlelwa
Volume/Issue :
Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 3 - March
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7716711
Abstract :
The focus of this study was to examine if there
is a relationship between ICT use and success in criminal
investigations in Dar es Salaam Special Police Zone.
Descriptive and inferential survey designs were adopted.
Analysis was done using frequencies, means, standard
deviation and factor analysis. Regression analysis was also
used to establish whether a relationship between ICT use
and the success of criminal investigations existed. Findings
showed that there was no significant relationship between
ICT use and success in criminal investigations in Dar es
Salaam Special Police Zone. The findings revealed that
information, interrogation, interview and instrumentation
were among of the tools used during criminal
investigation. The findings revealed that police officers
have family with hardware tools such as computers,
printers, tape recorders, cameras and spy pens while few
of them had no family with hardware tools such as
computers, printers, tape recorders, cameras and spy pens
and they used for criminal investigation. The study
concluded that as far as the extent of ICT use in criminal
investigations is concerned, respondents mainly and
generally used mobile phones, internet, computers,
scanners and photocopy machines to conduct criminal
investigations. The study recommends that the challenge
of inadequate ICT technologies to gather sufficient
evidence be tackled through a number of ways; the DCI
should improve forensic equipment and facilities to foster
investigations.
Keywords :
Criminal Investigation, ICT, Relationship and Tanzania Police Force.
The focus of this study was to examine if there
is a relationship between ICT use and success in criminal
investigations in Dar es Salaam Special Police Zone.
Descriptive and inferential survey designs were adopted.
Analysis was done using frequencies, means, standard
deviation and factor analysis. Regression analysis was also
used to establish whether a relationship between ICT use
and the success of criminal investigations existed. Findings
showed that there was no significant relationship between
ICT use and success in criminal investigations in Dar es
Salaam Special Police Zone. The findings revealed that
information, interrogation, interview and instrumentation
were among of the tools used during criminal
investigation. The findings revealed that police officers
have family with hardware tools such as computers,
printers, tape recorders, cameras and spy pens while few
of them had no family with hardware tools such as
computers, printers, tape recorders, cameras and spy pens
and they used for criminal investigation. The study
concluded that as far as the extent of ICT use in criminal
investigations is concerned, respondents mainly and
generally used mobile phones, internet, computers,
scanners and photocopy machines to conduct criminal
investigations. The study recommends that the challenge
of inadequate ICT technologies to gather sufficient
evidence be tackled through a number of ways; the DCI
should improve forensic equipment and facilities to foster
investigations.
Keywords :
Criminal Investigation, ICT, Relationship and Tanzania Police Force.
