Chandigarh,<\/p>\n
The Punjab Police on Monday took a digital leap in strengthening its capabilities to meet the contemporary law and order challenges, with Chief Minister Captain<\/p>\n
Amarinder Singh rolling out the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) project for tracking of crimes and criminals.<\/p>\n
The CCTN `Go-Live\u2019 roll-out has set the stage for the state to go paperless in terms of FIRs and General Diaries, which will now be updated online by the police<\/p>\n
officials, who will eventually also be provided Tablets for this purpose.<\/p>\n
Congratulating the police for the initiative, the Chief Minister pointed out that with the move, Punjab has joined the ranks of the few states in the country to roll it<\/p>\n
out. While 13-year-old data (FIRs and General Diaries) have already been digitized as part of this project, all future data will be uploaded live from now on.<\/p>\n
The launch ceremony took place in the presence of top police officials, including DGP Punjab Suresh Arora, DGP-IT&T V. K. Bhawra, DGP Intelligence Dinkar<\/p>\n
Gupta, DGP Law and Order Hardeep Dhillon, IG Provisioning Gurpreet Deo, IG Crime Inderbir Singh, IGP-IT&T S. K. Asthana, IG NRI Cell Ishwar Chander,<\/p>\n
The Chief Minister\u2019s Media Advisor Raveen Thukral, besides Principal Secretary to CM Tejveer Singh were also present.<\/p>\n
Lauding the police for the initiative, Captain Amarinder exhorted them to make effective use of the repository of valuable information that will be available<\/p>\n
through this project. He stressed on the need to enhance IT proficiency at all levels to make use of such projects.<\/p>\n
The Chief Minister urged all police officials at police station and supervisory levels to work on the project, while directing the department to suitably reward<\/p>\n
successes achieved through CCTNS project, which has been linked with Saanjh to provide citizen services in a more effective manner by automating manual<\/p>\n
processes.<\/p>\n
The basic objectives of the project include improving quality of investigation and prosecution, linking crimes with criminals and vice versa, providing vital crime<\/p>\n
intelligence, providing better services to the citizens and simplifying maintenance of records at Police Station level. Of the Rs 47 crore sanctioned by the<\/p>\n
Centre, a sum of Rs. 22.64 crore has been spent so far on the project, according to the DGP.<\/p>\n
The project, which now covers 600 locations, including 400 Police Stations and higher offices from Sub-Division to State level, currently has a database of 13<\/p>\n
years (2005 to 2017) for about 7.6 Lakh FIRs and total 29 Lakh records of different investigation related forms, which can be searched and retrieved from the<\/p>\n
database online.<\/p>\n
The database is all set to expand with every passing day due to registration of FIRs, important developments in investigations and disposal of cases by courts.<\/p>\n
The STF data is also expected to be added by the end of the month.<\/p>\n
The police stations are connected through 512 KB connections, which are proposed to be upgraded to optical fibre by June-July this year at a cost of Rs. 26<\/p>\n
crore, of which Rs 12 crore has already been released, the DGP informed the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n
All the locations have been provided computer hardware and software and are digitally connected for regular updation of the database. All the FIRs are being<\/p>\n
registered and all General Diary entries being made on computer under CCTNS project and are part of state level database maintained at State Data Center,<\/p>\n
which is in turn connected to national data center. In addition, the record of the last 10 years has been digitized.<\/p>\n
Entries in database are made primarily by Police Stations and database is accessible to Police Stations and higher offices. Any Police officer at Police Station<\/p>\n
level or supervisory level can access this database for searches\/query for any crime or criminal or for linking crime with criminal and vice versa. Crime trends<\/p>\n
can be analysed and counter strategies can be evolved. Supervisory officers can monitor cases registered, progress of investigation and prosecution.<\/p>\n
In future, the CCTNS project is proposed to be expanded by linking it with different databases being maintained by the Government. Going a step further, hand<\/p>\n
-held devices (Tablets) will be given to all field officers to enable data entry from anywhere, particularly from field locations. Development of mobile and web-<\/p>\n
based Apps for investigating officers and supervisory officers is also high on the agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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