The online registration of First Information Report (FIR) has begun in four police stations of insurgency infested Kondagaon district in Bastar region, police said here on Thursday.
Notably, the online FIR registration is part of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS). The CCTNS is a Mission-mode Project under the National e-Governance scheme launched by the Central government.
The CCTNS aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing through adopting of the principle of e-Governance and creation of a nation-wide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled-state-of-the-art tracking system around 'Investigation of crime and detection of criminals'.
According to police officers, the inter-connection of police stations is part of police modernisation process under the CCTNS project in Chhattisgarh. The police stations will be not only connected with each other but also with police headquarters (PHQ).
Once CCTNS system starts functioning, information from any police station will be just a click away for Range IG or PHQ, officers said.
On Thursday, Kondagaon, Farasgaon, Keshkal and Makdi police stations were connected with online FIR registration system. So far 147 officers/employees of district police have been trained to operate CCTNS system, officials said.
The occasion was marked with the presence of District Collector Kondagaon, Shikha Rajput Tiwari, Superintendent of Police JS Watti, Additional Superintendent of Police Nivedita Pal Sharma and others.