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All set to bust pan-India terror net

Ready for pilot testing in 9 states and UTs, CCTNS is likely to come to Maha in March.

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Pan-India terrorist networks, sleeper cells, intra-state gangsters, beware! For, the state police are gearing up to implement the Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network System (CCTNS) — an ambitious Central government project of over Rs 2,000 crore that aims to connect all the police stations and security agencies across the country through the internet.

While the CCTNS is ready for pilot-testing in at least nine states and Union territories, the city police have sanctioned Rs1.30 lakh in all its five regions towards training its staff in the software.

These five regions in the city cover over 90 police stations. Soon, every police station in the state aims to have at least one police officer and five constables trained in handling the CCTNS — an uphill task considering that most of them have a trifling knowledge about computers, software, let alone the CCTNS programme.
Hence, Maharashtra, including its crime capital Mumbai, where the infrastructure is still being placed, will be able to witness the full functionality of CCTNS only by March, which is the deadline for the project on a pan-India level.

Confirming that the software developed for the project was ready and being handed to a few  states and Union Territories for intensive pilot testing, a Central home ministry official said if successful, the initiative has the scope of changing the face of policing in the country.

“All the crime records and data about criminals and other related information from across the country will be available to all the police stations and investigating agencies simultaneously at the click of a mouse,” said Superintendent of police, JD Supekar of CID, Pune, who is supervising the project in Maharashtra. Apart from assuring faster police action, the CCTNS will also help the citizens a great deal and make the registering of the grievances  and its tracking easier.

In fact, experts said the need for CCTNS has long been felt, due to the rising number of crimes, especially the terror-related ones, where the investigating agencies have time and again failed  to coordinate and cooperate due to lack of connectivity.

According to the sleuths, CCTNS will involve the over 14,000 police stations,  around 6000 higher offices in the police department, including crime branch offices, anti-terrorism squads, forensic laboratories, around 1300 prisons and other government  agencies responsible for policing and maintaining law and order. As part of the project, data of over last 10 years will be digitised and stored. Also, a special software developed for the project will translate data into different state languages.

The pilot project has already started in Rajasthan, Delhi, Banglore, and a few Union territories.

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