This paper describes our overview on crime news retrieval system for malaysian context. We discuss a framework of an interactive malaysia crime news retrieval system (i-JEN) from the perspective of technical possibilities. Our main objectives are to construct crime based event; investigate the use of crime based event in improving the classification and clustering; develop an interactive crime news retrieval system; visualize crime news in an effective and interactive way; and to evaluate the usability and system performance. The work has an aim to organize,retrieve and present the crime news interactively and in a most effective way. Our main target users in this work are the public users,news analyst and policemen. We also integrated the data we get from the bernama news agency in design and development of the system. Keywords: Crime news; event crime model.