Under the ambitious Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), as many as 13 States and Union Territories have started registering cent per cent FIRs on the online initiative that has integrated nearly 15,000 police stations across the country.
CCTNS is a synchronised online database for tracking crime and criminals through the police stations networked to it.
The States that have achieved the feat of registering 100 per cent FIRs under the CCTNS software, include Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharash-tra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Meghalaya, Tripura, Goa, Delhi, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
However, so far no FIR was registered in Bihar, Rajasthan and lakshadweep despite 1,771 police stations of the two States and the UT being included in the CCTNS project.
Till now, a total of 14,844 police stations across the country have been brought under the project. Excluding Bihar, Rajasthan and lakshadweep, 13,073 police stations in the rest of the country are registering the FIRs online.
The NDA Government accorded its approval in November for completion of the CCTNS project by March 2017.
CCTNS project aims to create a national database of crimes and criminals by interlinking the police stations online and additional 5,000 offices of supervisory police officers across the country and digitise data related to FIR registration, investigation and chargesheets in all police stations.
The full implementation of the project with all the new components would lead to a central citizen portal having linkages with State-level citizen portals that will provide a number of citizen-friendly services.
These include services like police verification for various purposes like issuance of passport, reporting a crime and online tracking of the case progress, online reporting of grievances against police officials, accessing victim compensation fund and legal services among others.
The project will enable national-level crime analytics to be published at increased frequency, helping policymakers as well as lawmakers in taking appropriate and timely action.
It will also enable pan-India criminal/accused name search in the regional language for improved inter-State tracking of criminal movement.
The project, approved in 2009, spans across all the States and Union territories. As per the plan, it envisages connecting more than 21,000 locations relating to policing.
The project also aims at creation of a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled sophisticated tracking system around “investigation of crime and detection of criminals”.