The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) will be on air by end of December and all the 784 locations in the State, including 584 police stations, will be connected through this online database system.
Director General of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Shafi Alam said this here on Monday. Alam was here to hold a review meeting on the progress of the CCTNS project in Odisha, which was attended by DGP Prakash Mishra, Director of State CRB M Akshay
This scheme is being implemented by the Odisha CRB in collaboration with the Union Home Ministry and NCRB. In January last, it was launched at Angul and Kendrapada as pilot project
“Rs 49.33 crore has been allocated to Odisha for this project. Of the scheduled 28,000 police personnel, 11,354 cops have been imparted offline training. Also 22 IPS officials joined the training sessions at NCRB, Delhi. The online training will start soon,” he said. adding, “preparations for the Statewide launching of the project are almost complete.”
CCTNS project is meant to create an Online database in which all the relevant information of arrested and convicted persons will be stored.
The information includes picture, finger print, biometric samples, crime records; addresses will be stored in the national database.All the police stations in the country will be connected through web link and cops will be able to track criminals just with the click of mouse. As many 125 power-deficit police stations across the State are being provided with solar power back up for effective implementation of CCTNS, sources said.