In Haryana, citizens do not need to go to the police stations or police offices for availing benefit of 33 types of services as they can apply online through the Haryana Police HarSamay citizen portal or Saral Kendra while sitting at home.
In addition, Character Certificate, Tenant Verification Certificate, Police Clearance Certificate can also be obtained while sitting at home through Haryana Police’s HarSamay citizen portal, Additional Director General of Police, Administration and IT, A.S. Chawla said.
Addressing the under training Sub-Inspectors of Haryana Police at a session on the topic of computerization organized at Haryana Police Academy, Madhuban in Karnal, Chawla said Haryana Police is moving fast towards computerization.
To make citizen service delivery fast, citizen friendly, transparent, and corruption free, Haryana police has now integrated digital signatures in the verification certificates issued to citizens. (i.e. Character Certificate, Tenant Verification Certificate, Police Clearance Certificate). These services were launched by Home Minister Anil Vij, last month.
“We intend to make the reporting of criminal cases from police stations and district level completely paper-free in coming months and efforts are being made to make available all these information online. Presently the police portal has been linked to the Health Department and the Jail Department.
The investigating officer can get information about the offender from his police station and get a medical report from his police station online. In addition, the work of providing copies of first information report to citizens online is going on since last year,” he added.
Chawla also highlighted the importance of Durga Shakti App and added that about 2 lakh users have downloaded this app so far. Based on the information received on this app, thousands of women have been assisted by the
police.
He also urged the trainee officers to continuously increase their skills which will help them in the days to come. The role of information technology in policing is going to increase more, so keep trying to increase your knowledge in this field, he added.
