What you need to know about MAI SIGUR

Only from official sources: the crime coefficient per sector published by DGPMB (the Bucharest Police), statistics from the Poliția Română (the Romanian Police) and MAI (Romania's Ministry of Internal Affairs), the National Public Order and Safety Strategy, INSSE (Romania's National Institute of Statistics) and data.gov.ro. We do not scrape data from unofficial websites. All sources are listed on the Methodology page.

Because Romania does not currently publish geolocated, incident-level data (of the police.uk kind). Official public data is aggregated, and the finest level available is the sector. The incident layer shows what the platform will look like once it is connected to the Poliția Locală feeds in Phase 1 of the pilot. The sector coefficients, on the other hand, are real official data.

By design. No event is shown at its exact address: it is anchored to the nearest area or landmark ("snap-to-street"), and the location is generalised to neighbourhood level. This is the model validated internationally by data protection authorities, and it allows transparency without exposing individuals.

Yes. The platform does not display, or process for public display, any identifiable personal data. Anonymisation is built in from the start (privacy by design, Article 25 GDPR): anchoring to areas, a minimum aggregation threshold and no attributes about individuals. We comply with the GDPR, Legea 190/2018 (Romania's GDPR implementing law) and the AI Act.

No. The AI Act prohibits predictive policing based on the individual profiling of people. MAI SIGUR is strictly place-based: the analysis looks at places and patterns, never at individuals. We do not use arrest data or personal profiles. We estimate where risk is concentrated by area, so that city halls can direct resources towards prevention.

A large language model (LLM) cleans and standardises data that arrives in different formats, sorts it into categories and identifies risk patterns by area. Processing uses Mistral AI, a European infrastructure, to comply with the GDPR and keep the data within the EU. Details on the Methodology page.

It is an official index published every year by DGPMB for each sector, which relates crime to population and other factors. It is not the raw number of offences. Based on it, each sector is given a risk level: high, medium or low. You can explore it year by year (2020-2025) on the map.

The official sector layer is updated whenever DGPMB publishes new coefficients (once a year). As we integrate feeds from the Poliția Locală during the pilot phase, updates will become more frequent.

On the Alerts page: you choose an area of interest and the categories that matter to you, and we let you know when there are relevant updates. It is the most effective model of civic engagement, adopted from international platforms.

Bucharest is the pilot: it has the best level of geolocated official data (a coefficient per sector) and the density that justifies an urban map. Once the pilot is validated, the platform will expand to several cities, with an open data standard and a public API.

The project is moving towards open data, in line with Legea 179/2022 (Romania's open data law). In the short term, the official data we cite stays with its public sources (the links on the Methodology page). In the medium term we will offer a data standard and a public API.

The civic reports layer (broken street lighting, abandoned areas, dangerous junctions) is part of Phase 1 of the pilot, following the FixMyStreet model. Until it launches, you can tell us directly at [email protected].