Context: Nearly 15 years after Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) was launched, all 17,130 police stations in the country have been linked through the CCTNS.
Relevance of the Topic: Prelims: Key facts about Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS).
Criminal Tracking Network and Systems
- CCTNS is a centralised online platform to file First Information Reports (FIRs), chargesheets, and investigation reports.
- This online database can be accessed by law enforcement authorities across the country.
Background:
- It was conceptualised by the Ministry of Home Affairs and has been implemented as a "Mission Mode Project (MMP)" since 2009.
- It aims at putting in place a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of policing at the police station level throughout the country.
- National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) is the nodal agency and is entrusted with the responsibility for monitoring, coordinating and implementing the CCTNS project.
Utility of CCTNS:
- Creating a citizen friendly and transparent Police functioning by automating the functioning of Police Stations.
- Improve delivery of citizen-centric services through effective usage of ICT.
- Providing tools, technology and information to the Investigating Officers to facilitate effective and efficient investigation of crime and detection of criminals.
- Improve Police functioning in various areas such as Law and Order, Traffic Management etc.
- Facilitate Interaction and sharing of Information among various police agencies and jurisdictions.
- Assist Police Officers in better management of the Police Force.
- Keep track of the progress of Cases, including in Courts.
- Reduce manual and redundant Records keeping.
| About National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB): NCRB was set-up in 1986 (under Ministry of Home Affairs) to function as a repository of information on crime and criminals so as to assist the investigators in linking crime to the perpetrators.Headquarters: New Delhi Its creation was based on the recommendations of the Tandon Committee, National Police Commission (1977-1981) and the MHA’s Task force (1985).In 2017 it launched the National Digital Police Portal. It is a master police portal which caters both to the citizens as well as to the police personnel. It allows police personnel to search for a criminal / suspect on the CCTNS database, besides access to many other police utilities like Cri-MAC, NDSO, CyTrain etc. To citizens, it provides various services like filing of complaints online and seeking antecedent verification of tenants, domestic helps, drivers etcThe Bureau has been entrusted to maintain the National Database of Sexual Offenders (NDSO) and share it with the States/UTs on a regular basis. NCRB has been designated as the Central Nodal Agency to manage the ‘Online Cyber-Crime Reporting Portal’ through which any citizen can lodge a complaint or upload a video clip as an evidence of crime related to child pornography, rape/gang rape.NCRB compiles and publishes National Crime Statistics i.e. Crime in India, Accidental Deaths & Suicides and also Prison Statistics.The Central Finger Print Bureau under NCRB is a national repository of all fingerprints in the country. |
Practice MCQ:
Q. With Reference to Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), consider the following statements
1. It is a centralised repository of crime related data exclusively developed for the Intelligence bureau and CBI.
2. National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) is the nodal agency entrusted with the responsibility for monitoring the project.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer: (b)