The plan involves setting up of a country wide Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS). It aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing through adopting of e-Governance and creation of a nation wide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT enabled state-of-the-art tracking system.
CCTNS is a Mission Mode Project under the National e-Governance Plan of the Government of India. An allocation of Rs.2000 crores, as approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on June 19, 2009, has been made for the project.
CCTNS intends to make police functioning citizen friendly and more transparent by automating the functioning of police stations throughout the country, improve delivery of citizen centric services, provide investigating officers of the Civil Police with tools, technology and information to facilitate investigation of crime and detection of criminals, and improve police functioning in various other areas like law and order, traffic management and so on. This will also assist senior police officials in better management of Police Force, facilitate interaction and sharing of information among police stations, districts, State/Union Territory headquarters and other police agencies, keep track of cases, including in courts, and reduce manual and redundant record keeping.
In addition, under the CCTNS project, approximately 14,000 police stations across the country will be automated, with 6000 higher officials in police hierarchy at Circle, Sub-Division, Districts, Range, Zones, Police Headquarters, State Crime Record Bureaux (SCRBx) including scientific and technical organisations with data bases to provide assistance and information for investigation and other purposes. Finger Print Bureaux and Forensic Laboratories will also form part of the CCTNS project.
Other features of the project will include equipping CCTNS with Registration Module, Investigation Module, Prosecution Module, Search Module, Citizen Interface Module, Navigation Module and Configuration Module.
At the apex, National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) will coordinate with the State police and provide integrated coordinated approach to tackle crimes including investigation of crimes and detection of criminals. The NCRB will provide logistic support to tackling of crimes concertedly.
The CCTNS will, however, not succeed in view of doubts raised by well meaning people unless desired reforms in policing with marked attitudinal changes in the Police Force are effected through legislative and administrative measures.
Despite over 60 years of country's Independence police continue to behave as a repressive and oppressive Force. They are yet to behave as a respecter of human rights of the people in our democratic system of the rule of law based governance, where people are the ultimate sovereign masters and Government of the day are accountable to them.
In view of the CCTNS project now underway, urgent police reforms is called for. Police Force needs to be sensitized to gender, communal equanimity, regionalism, casteism, parochialism and other ills that beset our society and made accountable so that a modicum of human and wholesome virtues prevail in the nation and heightened social tension reduced considerably.#
India: Crime
Chidambaram's plan to fast track investigation of crime and detection of criminals
Can he suceed in reducing the menace ?
M.Y.Siddiqui - 2009-10-26 10:49
With the success of amending the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act during the Winter Session of Parliament in 2008 and setting up of National Security Guard base in the four Metros during the first half of 2009 as a quick response measure to tackle terrorism, militancy, subversion and naxalism on a war footing throughout the nation, the Union Minister of Home Affairs P.Chidambaram has set in motion an ambitious plan to fast track investigation of crime and detection of criminals.