A STUDY OF RECENT POLICESTATIONSEXTENSION IN KHARTOUM USING GIS

Abstract

As planning is so important in all fields, the Comprehensive Strategy conference has come to play a key role in the police axis. Aided by that conference, the needs of this axis have been studied and the means of performance within its ranks promoted, especially that security is regarded as the basic pillar for realizing glory, freedom and prosperity for this nation, a lofty goal that has to be achieved under the umbrella of the civilizational orientation adopted by the Sudan. The Sudanese Police Forces was formed during the Condominium rule (1898-1956). Following Sudan Independence in 1956, the state started giving concern to up-grading the police with some laws issued in this regard top of which were the 1979 police Acts. As for crime, Sudan is inhabited by a peaceful people of good morals. Civil war, fed by foreign factors, helped increase rates of migration to the capital, major cities and stable areas, thus increasing the need for police to control crime. Crime in Sudan is of an individual nature and not the sort of organized style. Sudanese police enjoys a good fame on both the regional and international levels linked by agreements and relations within international recognized charters. This paper explores the developments and distribution of police stations and its coverage in Khartoum state up to 2015 using GIS. The research targeted the 25 years in the period 1990 to 2015 to study. Khartoum city was taken as a sample of the three cities forming the state. GIS package used to created maps, link the spatial data with metadata and analysis this data. Results showed that Khartoum state containing 21 well distributed police stations. Police stations service coverage going decreasing compared with population growth