Govt approves Rs 2,000 cr IT project to enhance policing

New Delhi, Jun 19 (PTI) With a view to ensure speedy and
transparent investigation, the Indian government Friday
cleared a Rs 2,000 crore project of interlinking all police
stations through Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and
Systems.

The Information Technology enabled project proposal --
Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) --
with an outlay of Rs 2,000 crore in the 11th Five Year Plan
was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
(CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The CCTNS project aims at creating a comprehensive and
integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and
effectiveness of policing at the police station level by
adopting principles of e-Governance, Union Home Minister P
Chidambaram told reporters here.

The objectives of the CCTNS project are streamlining
investigation and prosecution processes, strengthening of
intelligence gathering machinery, improved public delivery
system, citizen-friendly interface and nationwide sharing of
information on crime and criminals.

"This is a critical requirement in the context of the
present day internal security scenario," Chidambaram said.

It will facilitate collection, storage, retrieval,
analysis, transfer and sharing of data and information among
police stations, district, state headquarters and other
organisation or agencies, including those at Government of
India level, the Union Minister said.

The system will also help in enabling and assisting the
senior police officers in better management of police force,
besides keeping track of the progress of the crime and
criminal investigation, he said.

People will also be able to file complaints to
concerned police station and can get status of complaints or
cases registered. Besides, copies of FIRs, postmortem reports
and other permissible documents can also be obtained through
this system, he said.

The project, to be completed in three years, would be
initiated by the Ministry of Home Affairs and implemented by
the National Crime Records Bureau.

"The CCTNS project is to be implemented in a manner
where the major role would lie with the state governments in
order to bring in the requisite stakes, ownership and
commitment...apart from the required review and monitoring of
project implementation on a continuing basis," he said.

With the launching of CCTNS, the erstwhile Common
Integrated Police Application (CIPA) programme would be
subsumed into it in a manner that the work already done there
under is not disrupted.

"CIPA had been initiated to computerize and automate the
functioning of police stations with a view to bringing in
efficiency and transparency in various processes and functions
at the police station level and improve service delivery to
the citizens," Chidambaram said.

So far, 2,760 police stations, out of a total of around
14,000 police stations across the country, have been covered
under the scheme. PTI AKV
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