India needs real time decision support system to nab criminals

New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) Home Minister of India P
Chidambaram on Thursday advocated a robust real time decision
support system to track down terrorists and organised
criminals who have developed various channels of communication
with the help of technology.
"The terrorists and organised criminals have developed
overt and covert technologies including Information
Communication Technology. This has made the job of law and
order professionals far more challenging than ever before," he
said addressing the Silver Jubilee function of National Crime
Record Bureau.
The Home Minister said the country needs solutions that
can offer robust, real-time and validated decision support
systems for the police leadership to evolve remedial and
pro-active strategies.
"The sheer magnitude of crime in a federal polity of our
geographical size makes this task a really challenging one,"
he said.
Chidambaram said the challenges posed by criminality in
general and other more serious manifestations of crime in
particular like terrorism, insurgency, left wing extremism,
trans-national crimes, drugs and arms trafficking, cyber
crimes tend to establish that war against the Indian state is
being fought more in the hinterland than on the borders.
"Today, we are fighting our battles on individual pitches.
We need to connect, coordinate and supplement our efforts both
at micro and macro levels," he said. MORE PTI