Cop in style: Delhi Police to join cyber criminal tracking network

According to a report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Delhi along with West Bengal, Jharkhand and Maharashtra are in the ‘initial stage’ to implement the project.

Explaining how the CCTNS works, Director General of NCRB Rajiv Ranjan Verma said that each police officer’s general diary (GD), which records the movement of the state police, and the First Information Reports would be uploaded on the network so that it can be accessed by all police stations, via a password.

‘So, it not only helps in catching criminals easily even if they shift base to another city or state but also ensures that a strong case is built against the criminals as their past record is available in a jiffy’, Verma said.

The CCTNS creates an integrated system for enhancing the efficiency of policing through e-governance and creation of a nationwide network infrastructure. It also reduces the need to manually perform monotonous tasks, improves police communication and e-mail system, he added.

So far, 16 states and union territories have become part of the project. On the challenges faced by the project, Verma said training police personnel to handle the vast e-networking based application is the biggest uphill task, but added that the network connectivity was going on ‘full swing’. 

‘A total of 14,485 police station sites out of 21,502 in 16 states and three new states have been connected by BSNL, and the remaining 3,961 are ready to be connected’, he said. 

NCRB is coordinating with BSNL and other internet service providers to establish connectivity between national and state data centre. The CCTNS has been taken up as a mission mode project as a part of government’s nNational e-Governance plan.