[Polity] Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems

(CCTNS): features, Benefits

1. Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems(CCTNS)
2. What are the advantages of CCTNS?
1. Benefits to Senior police officers
2. Benefits to Investigating Officers
3. Benefits to Citizen
3. Future ahead: CCTNS
4. Current Progress of CCTNS
5. Bureau of Police Research and Development(BPRD)
6. What is National Police Mission (NPM) ?
7. Mock questions

Lets first see how police database system used to work earlier.Ok so
whats the problem in above system?

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)

Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems(CCTNS)

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

This is a project under the National e-Governance plan.
Itll set up infrastructure (computers, printer, scanner, UPS, router
etc) in each police station.
Itll 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. (of Azim Premji)

What are the advantages of CCTNS?

Easy to track convicts.
Biometric records of convicts are taken= 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.)
In the old Don movie (starring Big B), criminals kept contacts and
payment details in a Red coloured Diary.
But in the remake of Don (starring Shah Rukh Khan), theyre
usingsophisticated hard disks! So, if criminals have upgraded their
office-procedures, then police definitely needs more tech
upgrades. Hahaha
In many schemes (such as right to education), the state
Governments need to contribute some money and they always

keep crying that we dont have money so we cant implement it

properly.
But this CCTNS scheme is 100% centrally funded scheme=States
cant make excuses.
central data system is very useful for research on crime and for
framing policies related to certain crimes.
This is very important considering the recent rape incidents, the
juvenile issue and also the nature/origin/background of convicts.

Benefits to Senior police officers

(e.g. SP, DIG etc)
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, or
2. replying to an R.T.I. or
3. for supplying information to home minister, for questions
asked in parliament/State legislative assembly.

Benefits to Investigating Officers

(ACP, Police inspector, etc)
They can contact external agencies like Jails, Courts, Transport,
Passport, Foreigners Registration Offices / depts., etc., for relevant
information.
Right now theyve 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
daypaper 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- software developed by
TCS company for Ministry of External affairs.).
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 dont have to go from pillar to post to get such information.

FIR registration software

Future ahead: CCTNS

Centralized IT enabled Police Passport Verification= 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.
These are just some of the planned expansions. Many more can be
introduced. (and you can asked to give suggestions during interview.)

Current Progress of CCTNS

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.
Now, for some other information regarding police reforms in the country:

Bureau of Police Research and Development(BPRD)

Setup in 1970.
Acts as the consultant organization for Police reforms for the
government.
Conducts Research on Police development, -modernization,
training, administration and other aspects.
Conducts Seminar, Conferences on Police development.

This BPRD has set up a National Police Mission (NPM).

What is National Police Mission (NPM) ?

Formulated in 2005.
For initiation national level reforms in police.

Various Micro Missions have been created under this Mission,

such as:

1. Human resource Development.

2. Community Policing.
3. Communication and Technology.
4. Infrastructure.
5. Proactive Policing
While this nation police mission mission is created with such high level
objectives, it will work only if the state governments take its
recommendations seriously and actually undertaking police reforms.

Mock questions
Q1. Find Correct statement?
1. CCTNS is an initiative by Ministry of Home affairs for
modernization of police
2. The Centre and State will share the cost of building CCTNS
infrastructure in the ratio of 75:25.
a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both

d. None
Q2. Find correct statement
1. The Software Development Agency for creation of software for the
CCTNS project is TCS.
2. The partner for Ministry of External Affairs in the Passport Seva
Kendras is Wipro.
a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both
d. None
Q3 Find incorrect Match
Subject

List

a. Public order

State

Criminal law, including all matters in IPC.

Union

Criminal procedures, including all matters in CrPC

Concurrent

Mains
1. BPRD. (5 marks)
2. CCTNS.(5 marks)
3. Discuss the features and benefits of Crime and Criminal Tracking
Network System.(15 marks.)

Essay
1. Police Reforms
2. Policing the Police
Ref
1. Inputs from Mr. Shiva Ram.
2. www.bprd.nic.in
3. http://ncrb.nic.in/cctns.htm
4. http://www.passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/online/knowPass
portSeva