Chhattisgarh Director General of Police Ashok Juneja on Wednesday said the time has come to modernize policing by applying more and more technology to effectively curb the rapidly increasing cybercrimes.
He was addressing the inaugural of a hackathon competition named ‘Hack-Manthan’ organized by Chhattisgarh Police and the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Nava Raipur.
Pradeep Sinha, Director IIIT, said there was a need to organize such competitions in future also.
Pradeep Gupta, the Additional Director General of Police (Technical Service), said that technical problems faced in policing in real life have been included in the competition.
He said the national level competition received 1,200 applicants across the country. A total of 460 teams of technical institutes like IITs, NITs and IIITs were involved in the month-long competition. The first phase will conclude on June 20.
A total of 12 teams will be shortlisted for the final round on June 29 at Raipur. The first, second and third winners will be given cash prizes of Rs 80,000, Rs 40,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively.