CCTNS implemented in 96 pc police stations

The CCTNS, which aims to create a national database of crimes and criminals, has been successfully implemented in 96 per cent police stations in the country, barring two states.
This was conveyed to Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir by Home Ministry officials when he reviewed the working of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) here today.
During the presentation, it was highlighted that CCTNS software has been successfully deployed at 96.32 per cent police stations -- 13,122 police stations out of 13,623 police stations - excluding 1,757 police stations in Bihar and Rajasthan, a Home Ministry statement said.

The presentation also stressed upon that in 12,830 police stations, all FIRs are entering through CCTNS software.
Pointing out that only FIR data related to more than 7 crore cases has been uploaded on the CCTNS since its inception in 2009, Ahir directed that all remaining FIRs must be uploaded before the formal launch of the CCTNS later this year.
The Minister advised the officials to include trend analysis of crimes and other analytics for better monitoring by Centre and states.

The CCTNS will facilitate pan-India search on complete national crime and criminal database that is accessible to the investigating officers throughout the country.

CCTNS project will interconnect the country's all 14,879 police stations and additional 5,000 offices of supervisory police officers and digitize data related to FIR registration, investigation and chargesheets in all police stations.
This would lead to development of a national database of crimes and criminals.
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 etc.

Yesterday, the Union Cabinet had extended for a year the implementation of the CCTNS project -- till March 2018.