Project

ANONPOL - Anonymization of Police Data for Interdisciplinary Research.

Code
bof/bas/2025/017
Duration
01 December 2025 → 30 November 2027
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Neural, evolutionary and fuzzy computation
    • Database systems and architectures
    • Workflow, process and database management
  • Social sciences
    • Causes and prevention of crime
    • Criminography and methods of criminological investigation
    • Safety, prevention and police
    • Criminology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
criminology anonymized data Protection of sensitive data police
 
Project description

Detailed police data with spatial and temporal information are crucial for analyzing crime patterns and making police decisions. They support theory formation, evidence-based policy-making, and crime prevention. This project focuses on developing an algorithm for the automatic and user-friendly anonymization of police data (crime, emergency call, and GPS data with precise address and time information). Two challenges are the anonymization of personal data and the risk of identification through detailed location and time data. A collaboration between criminologists and computer scientists is needed to develop a user-friendly algorithm that automatically processes police data, protects privacy, and provides valid criminological insights. This includes analyses of personal data, aggregation levels, and statistical techniques, and the development of a scalable algorithm and user interface.