Centre launches pilot project to track criminals
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday launched a pilot project of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS), making the online filing of FIRs/complaints possible in Delhi. It will be operationalised across the country once all 15000 police stations and 6000 higher offices are inter-linked through an IT-enabled technology.
The system includes creation of a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of state-of-the-art tracking system around 'investigation of crime and detection of criminals'. It will pave the way for sharing crime-related information on real-time basis across all police stations and other law enforcement agencies' offices in the country.
Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde launched the project at a special gathering of director generals of police and chief secretaries of states, showing them how the information about a complaint filed at Tuglaq Road police station in the Capital got simultaneously flagged to computes at the Vigya Bhawan complex.
After the launch, Union home secretary R K Singh said the CCTNSwould be a comprehensive database for crimes and criminals, and it would be easier for the law enforcement agencies to track down a criminal moving from one place to another.
Singh said it will bring more transparency in police administration as a person can lodge complaint on-line and get a status report of the complaint on-line too. "This will be a wide data base. It will help in arresting criminals and investigating cases. This will be a big milestone," he said.
Singh said it would also help senior police officers to keep a tab on people's complaints and progress of any investigation.
The Rs 2,000 crore project, approved in 2009, spans across all the 35 states and Union Territories. It will be connected to a total of more than 21,000 locations. At present, 2000 police stations and other higher offices (mainly immigration check posts) in the country have been connected under the system.
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