Additional Director General of Police (Crime Records Bureau) Ashish Bhangra on Wednesday reviewed the implementation of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) by the Coimbatore City and District Rural police.
He also held a sensitisation programme in which he explained to the officers the benefit of this system, under which the crime records of the District Crime Records Bureaus would be digitised and linked.
Conceived in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack, this project aims at creation of a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled sophisticated tracking system around ‘investigation of crime and detection of criminals’ by linking all the police stations in the country.
He chaired a meeting with the city police officials in the morning in which City Police Commissioner A.K. Viswanathan took part. He told the officers that Tamil Nadu was a leader in implementation of this system, which had a lot of benefits especially in data storage and retrieval. The system would eventually lead to paperless police stations.
Later in the day, he chaired a meeting of the District Rural Police in which K. Shankar, Inspector General of Police (West Zone), M. Sudhakar, Superintendent of Police, and other officers took part.
The Tamil Nadu police force had records of over three lakh habitual offenders and criminals in various police stations. If all their details were to be uploaded on to CCTNS, he said that passport verification can be expedited considerably.
Through this system, Mr. Bhangra told the officers, the public can register complaints online, find out if a vehicle they are purchasing was a stolen one and find out the status of their complaints.
