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Contents Background Problem Statement Proposed Solution User Requirements Functional Requirements Non-Functional Requirements Tools and Technologies Prototype Project Plan References

Background Focus on Mfuleni community, Poor Mfuleni is a small township in development stage Poor community and High unemployment rate. Have managed to visit Mfuleni to obtain requirements. heart of Cape Town with about 52 300 members. It’s a mixed community with black and coloured members. Unemployment and crime are common problems in this poor township

Problem Statement The Mfuleni community need awareness of their neighbourhoods. Crime keep increasing and no action is being taken. Drug and alcohol substance abuse are on the rise. There’s also no track of reports or statistics, so no measurement can be taken to indicate if crime activities are getting lower. Need some display of any statistics of activities occurred in the past. A number of crime activities are occurring in the Mfuleni area.

Proposed Solution The report will be saved in a database The crime description can either be text or a voice recording. They need a description and location of crime activity to complete a report. Create a reporting tool The solution to these problems is to which allow the Mfuleni community members to report a crime activity in real-time. where an admin with authorized rights will have access to the database and respond to users. the tool.

User Requirements Functional Register a User Report a criminal activity Display crime hotspot data in a graph Response from admin regarding status

User Requirements Availability Security Usability Efficiency Non-Functional Must be 24/7 available Availability Secure access and safeguard of data Security Interface must be easy to use for all people Usability App must respond quickly Efficiency

Tools and Technologies

Prototype User View on mobile app This prototype is based specific on the crime reporting activity in the community User View on mobile app

Admin dashboard Web-base Prototype Admin dashboard Web-base

Project Plan

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