The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Wednesday launched a portal enabling people to search for missing persons and check police records of any vehicle and generate a no-objection certificate (NOC) for it from a countrywide database.
The citizen-centric services have been launched on the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) platform and can be accessed on -”http://digitalpolicecitizenservices.Gov.In”digitalpolicecitizenservices.Gov.In portal or through a link in the existing ‘Digital Police Portal’, an official statement said.
“So far, such services are being provided through the state citizen portals and it is the first time that these are being launched centrally,” it said. Intelligence Bureau Director Arvind Kumar presided over the launch ceremony.
“The two citizen services namely ‘Missing Person Search’ and ‘Generate Vehicle NOC’ will now be available online to citizens,” NCRB Director Ram Phal Pawar said. “Citizens can search for their missing kin against the national database of recovered unidentified found person or unidentified dead bodies from their homes. This will hugely benefit relatives of missing persons and save them from running pillar to post, as all such details including photos are available in CCTNS and will now be accessible to citizens through this portal at their convenience,” he said.
On the ‘Generate Vehicle NOC’ service, the NCRB director said it allows citizens to ascertain the status of a vehicle before its second hand purchase, as to whether it is suspicious or clean from police records. “This search could be made against national database based on vehicle’s details, one can generate and download the relevant NOC, required by the RTO before the transfer of ownership,” Pawar said, according to the statement.
IB Director Arvind Kumar also inaugurated the Cyber Tipline monitoring facility in the NCRB. Cyber Tipline is centralised reporting system for the online exploitation including trafficking and sexual, of children. “The intersection between crime and technology is more apparent today than ever before. Digital technologies and the internet have not only spurred cybercrimes but also made them much more sophisticated,” Kumar said.