Narcotrace: Advanced Detection System for Social Media-Based Drug Trafficking

Khalid Alfatmi, Aarya Borse, Rushikesh Girase, Sakshi Bagul, Abhijit Patil, Makarand Shahade

2025

Abstract

Platforms like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Instagram have become very intelligent and hard to follow and track for law enforcement agencies in terms of the oversight and detection of criminal activities being done across borders of drug trafficking. Based on this, this paper introduces NarcoTrace as an innovative software application intended for countering real-time occurrences of drug trafficking on social media. NarcoTrace will utilize third-party APIs along with advanced models of machine learning that would include BERT in text analysis to analyze massive datasets of user-generated content while offering actionable insights. NarcoTrace incorporates an assessment system that ranks and categorizes threat subjects from high, medium, to low risk using immediate analysis of data. Activity types, ranked as medium risk are colored Yellow while high-risk activity types are colored Red. Hence, law enforcement shall concentrate on the most threatening areas more quickly. The usability of the dashboard is enhanced by incorporating metadata that contains the user IDs, timestamps and logs of the activities. This paper details the architecture of the system, methodologies data. Finally, we discuss potential societal impacts and future directions, which include an expansion of NarcoTrace to recognize emerging trends in criminal activity.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alfatmi K., Borse A., Girase R., Bagul S., Patil A. and Shahade M. (2025). Narcotrace: Advanced Detection System for Social Media-Based Drug Trafficking. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 3: INCOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-763-4, SciTePress, pages 757-762. DOI: 10.5220/0013659200004664

in Bibtex Style

@conference{incoft25,
author={Khalid Alfatmi and Aarya Borse and Rushikesh Girase and Sakshi Bagul and Abhijit Patil and Makarand Shahade},
title={Narcotrace: Advanced Detection System for Social Media-Based Drug Trafficking},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 3: INCOFT},
year={2025},
pages={757-762},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013659200004664},
isbn={978-989-758-763-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology - Volume 3: INCOFT
TI - Narcotrace: Advanced Detection System for Social Media-Based Drug Trafficking
SN - 978-989-758-763-4
AU - Alfatmi K.
AU - Borse A.
AU - Girase R.
AU - Bagul S.
AU - Patil A.
AU - Shahade M.
PY - 2025
SP - 757
EP - 762
DO - 10.5220/0013659200004664
PB - SciTePress