Criminal Suspect Face Construction Application

Facial composite is no longer new term into criminal law. Facial composite is an
alternative methods acted as a visual likeness representation of the criminal's face
structure. Most of the police officers in both local and international country have been
practicing this method as one of their methods to identify the criminal suspect's face.
This paper presents the study of the several face construction methods as well as to
develop a face construction application that meets the requirements. Typically, the
witnesses often are facing difficulty in describing the criminal suspects' face. It is due to
they might be influenced by many factors such as emotions which in a way resulted in
not accurate information or description. This paper focuses on the study of the Royal
Malaysian Police Officer and the crime witnesses of violent crime (homicide/murderer)
cases, highlighting on the Face Construction, a method used by the police officers to
construct the criminal suspect's face. Apart from that, the study carried out has been
based on research methodology used which is Iterated Waterfall Model which consists of
five phases; Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing and Maintenance.
SwishMax has been used as a platform to develop the project; Criminal Suspect Face
Construction Application. As for findings part, Usability Testing emphasize on five
aspects has been conducted in order to test the usability of the application which resulted
in 54% of design layout, 38% of functionality, 70% of ease of use, 65% of satisfaction,
43% of outcome/future use and 40% of error/system reliability.