Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems (CCTNS)

Submitted by –

Rahul SinglaM.A. Public Administration ,Sem. 4 ( Group – B) ,Panjab University .

Index

1.Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems(CCTNS)

2.What are the advantages of CCTNS?1.Benefits to Senior police office

rs2.Benefits to Investigating Office

rs3.Benefits to Citizen

3.Future ahead: CCTNS4.Current Progress of CCTNS

• Duplication of records.• Criminals will just move from one state to another.• Very hard to track Repeated Offenders.• Each police station has lot of individual records and files =just gathering dust. (plus very

time consuming to search data in paper files)

• Project started in 2009. (In the wake of 26/11 attack.)

• This is a project under the National e-Governance plan.

• It’ll set up infrastructure (computers, printer, scanner, UPS, router etc) in each police station.

• It’ll connect each police station to a centralized framework. (total about 14000 police stations in country)

• Make biometric profile (fingerprints, blood group, birthmarks etc) of convicts.

• Details of Arrested/ Missing/ Kidnapped.• Online tracking of complaints etc.• The core software is developed by Wipro.

What are the advantages of CCTNS?

Easy to track convicts. Biometric records of convicts are taken so no

confusion in future. (e.g. if a criminal has done plastic surgery or got a fake driving license/election card to create new identity to settle in a different city/state.)

CCTNS scheme is 100% centrally funded scheme so States can’t make excuses.

central data system is very useful for research on crime and for framing policies related to certain crimes.

Benefits to Senior police officers

1.Efficient personnel /HR  Management (e.g. salary, leave, promotion, transfer, training schedules etc. of the lower staff)

2.Effectively oversee the investigation.3.They can quickly access the statistics regarding

crime detection, investigation and prevention.4.They need such statistical data before

1.a press conference, or2.replying to an R.T.I. or3.for supplying information to home minister,

for questions asked in parliament/State legislative assembly.

Benefits to Investigating Officers They can contact external agencies like Jails, Courts, Transport,

Passport, Foreigners Registration Offices / depts., etc., for relevant information.

Right now they’ve to manually call people or write paper-letters or send their staff to collect the information. For example

1. Did xyz suspect was in jail during this xyz date or was he out on parole?

2. Did Mr.X visit xyz country on xyz date?3. Is this car belong to Mr.X and was it previously owned by Mr.Y? They can file On-line reports to senior officers – reduction of day to

day paper work= now they can spent more time and energy doing actual investigation.

They can access On-line library containing checklist on investigations, court judgments, police manuals etc. to prepare a ‘full-proof’ charge sheet against the suspect.

They can allot assignments, patrolling-schedules etc. to the staff quickly.

Benefits to Citizen You can register complaints can online. You can track the progress on your FIRs online.

(Similar to Track your application in Passport Seva Kendras).

You can download various forms (police clearance for domicile certificate etc.)

You requests police to verify background for servants, employment, tenants.

senior citizen registrations can register themselves (so policeman will visit your home once in a while to see everything is ok)

Motor Vehicle Tracking System,• List of missing persons, unidentified persons &

dead bodies. So you don’t have to go from pillar to post to get such information

Future ahead

Centralized IT enabled Police Passport Verification means Faster verifications.

Summons and Warrants can be approved online. In districts and remote villages, it takes a lot of time to reach court and get a warrant.

In case of Inter-state crimes, faster and improved coordination among police stations.

Current Progress

All the States/UTs have started incorporating the system.

Pilot schemes have been launched at various police stations in the country from Jan 2013.

These pilot schemes mean that those police stations will be using the CCTNS for all their police work.