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Rs 2,000 crore national terrorist-tracking system to roll out today

This is only a trial run where they will use the software in the states to connect all the police stations and enable the police to track criminals real time.

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Tracking terrorists and criminals is all set to get easier as the Union Home Ministry will launch its ambitious Rs 2000 crore-crime and criminal tracking system (CCTNS) as a pilot project from September 1 in Assam, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh.

This is only a trial run where they will use the software in the states to connect all the police stations and enable the police to track criminals real time.

So far, all information on terrorists and criminals is collated manually and stored away in files that are impossible to track.

Currently, if the Uttar Pradesh police has information on an imminent terrorist attack in Mumbai, there is no system in place to pass it on on a real time basis.

Also, if the Mumbai police is looking for a terrorist and some clues are available in Lucknow, there is no system to facilitate this exchange of information on a real time basis.

This had proved to be a major obstacle in tracking criminals and terrorists for police forces facing common threats. The MHA began to conceptualise a single all-India tracking system that would make sharing of information seamless and on a real time basis.

The project gained considerable push after the terrorist attack on Mumbai on 26/11.

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the nodal agency for the CCTNS, will launch pilot phase in the three states.

As the NCRB does not have requisite capability, Price Waterhouse Coopers will carry out the audit of the pilot phase. Other checks on safety and quality will also be carried out during the pilot phase.

Unhappy with the tardiness in the implementation of the mission mode project, especially after the 13/7 bombings in Mumbai, union home secretary RK Singh called a meeting of states police representatives for a review and asked them to fast-track the project.

Ironically, despite being repeatedly targeted by terrorists, Maharashtra was found to be one of the laggards in implementing this project, top home ministry sources said.

Once implemented, the CCTNS will facilitate collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, transfer and sharing of data and information between police stations, their state headquarters, central police organisations and other security agencies.

Information on any case, right from an offence being registered to its investigation and prosecution will be available on a secure network at the click of a button.

“Once activated fully in all the 14,000 plus police stations on December 31, it will make India at par with advanced countries like the US in tracking any case on a real time basis. Over 6,000 offices of senior police officials will be interconnected in the country through it,” an official told DNA.

Officials also say this will add to the National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid) making information held by 21 databases available to security agencies.

This includes immigration records, airlines, mobile, bank and credit card transactions and travel details creating a maze of rich data that would enable 11 intelligence and investigation agencies to launch hot pursuit of a criminal.

The CCTNS also offers benefits for ordinary citizens. It is expected to simplify the process of registering and tracking petitions and First Information Report (FIR), giving access to general services such as requests for certificates, verifications and permission, registering grievances against police, tracking the progress of a case during trail and access to reports for stolen or recovered vehicles and property through a citizen interface.

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