With the launch of ‘E-Malkhana’ in the remaining 10 districts of national Capital, the Delhi Police has become first in country to have digitalised malkhana in Police Stations of its all districts.
Speaking on the occasion Chief Guest, Delhi Commissioner of Police (CP), Amulya Patnaik, said that the malkhana is critical in police functioning and digitisation of malkhanas is a very important achievement.
He said digitization of service delivery mechanism will definitely make the whole system faster, smoother and easier.
He acknowledged that though digitization on such a large scale was a herculean task, the Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs), Joint CPs, Special CPs led from the front and kept their personnel motivated to achieve this goal.
CP commended the efforts of personnel instrumental in the project and presented certificate of merit to 14 personnel (one from each District), for their outstanding efforts in achieving this goal in their respective districts. “Digitization of case properties would give a boost to prosecution and judicial system owing to the ease in maintenance, location, retrieval of case properties and recording their movements as well. Around 3,11,600 case properties across all the police stations of Delhi have been encrypted in digital form,” said Sandeep Goel, Special CP, Law and Order, North range.
A booklet on e-malkhana functioning was also released on the occasion. A short film showing how this feat was accomplished within such a short span was shown on the occasion.