UP to have criminal tracking system by ’14
Uttar Pradesh will have its own Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) that will become operational from March 2014.
According to UP chief secretary Javed Usmani, the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System is a flagship project of Union home ministry covering the entire country.
It is one of the biggest and most promising schemes to connect all the police stations across the country to single server backed up by loads of information about each and every crime accused arrested in any part of the country.
The facility will also provide the facility to the common man to find out the status of his complaint/ FIR that he had lodged with the police in and from any part of the country through a net-enabled service. With as many as 62,420 policemen already been trained to operate the system, the pilot testing of the system in UP is being done in Lucknow, Gautam Buddha Nagar and Varanasi. The test project will help to assess and attend the teething problems of the system that may have gone unnoticed till now. Interestingly, the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) has been appointed as the nodal agency for the implementation of CCTNS and the software for the system has been prepared by computer giant Wipro.
The state government has been holding regular meetings with officials of concerned departments and the telecom officials to assess the progress in the project and also remove the glitches, if any.
“The system, when it becomes operational, will enable the law enforcing agencies to track criminal and their records within minutes. For example, a criminal from Mumbai can easily be tracked down in Varanasi because the system will have his photographs and all details which, normally, take a few days to arrive. It will help the police in tightening the noose around criminals to a great extent,” said a senior police official.
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