Crime and Criminal Tracking Network to be launched in Gurgaon, Ambala and Panchkula

 by Haryananewswire (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, JULY 26

Gurgaon, Ambala and Panchkula will be the first three districts of Haryana in which the ambitious project of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) will be launched on pilot basis. Later, the project will be rolled out all across the state.

            It was disclosed the 6th  meeting of  State Apex Committee which was held under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Secretary, Mr P. K. Chaudhery here today.  CCTNS was an important project of the Union Home Ministry. The project is a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effective policing at all levels, especially at the Police Station level through adoption of e-Governance and creation of nationwide networked infrastructure for evolution of state of the art IT tracking system. HP India Sales Private Limited was the System Integrator for the implementation, commissioning and maintaining of the project in Haryana.

The Chief Secretary said that as this project was an extremely important project, the system integrator and the IGP, Telecommunications, who was the nodal officer of CCTNS, Haryana should prepare the list of agreed activities which would be completed in a time bound manner so as to start monitoring immediately. He said that the required resources should be deployed at the earliest as once this project was completed, it would be a milestone project in improving investigations and crime prevention.  

It was informed that as many as 28 computer training labs had been commissioned in the state for providing computer awareness training under the project. As many as 190 selected officials had been imparted training so that they could further train officials of their units on basic computer awareness. In all 23039 officials including 3210 officials had also been trained in basic computer awareness in different police training institutions and CCTNS labs.

It was informed that the Project would also create a platform for sharing intelligence and crime and criminal information across the States, across the country and across other State-level and Government of India level agencies. It would improve investigation and crime prevention and better tracking of criminals, suspect, accused, repeat offenders, etc. The project would improve service delivery to the citizens by increased transparency in the delivery of police services.

The Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Mr Samir Mathur and the Director General of Police, Mr Ranjeev Dalal and several senior officers of police force were present in the meeting.