Message from the Director General

 

 

Welcome to the website of National Crime Records Bureau. Located at New Delhi as the attached office of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India, NCRB is mandated to empower the Indian Police with Information Technology for modernization of Indian Police.

NCRB has the proud distinction of installing 762 server - based computer systems at every District Crime Records Bureau and State Crime Records Bureau, across the country, 'Crime Criminal Information system (CCIS)’ project, with a view to maintain a National - level Database of Crimes, Criminals and Property related to crime.

NCRB is implementing Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), which is a mission mode project under the National e-governance plan of Government of India. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved CCTNS Project on 19.06.2009 and an allocation of Rs. 2000 crores has been made. It has the following objective:

 

a

Make the Police functioning citizen friendly, transparent, accountable effective and efficient by automating the processes and functions at the level of the Police Stations and other police offices at various levels.

b

Improving delivery of citizen-centric services through effective usage of Information & Communication Technology (ICT).

c

Provide the investigating Officers with the tools, technologies and information to facilitate faster and more accurate investigation of crime and detection of criminals.

d

Improve the Police functioning in various other areas such as Law & Order, Traffic Management, curbing organized crimes, resource management etc.

e

Facilitate collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, transfer and sharing of data and Information among Police Stations, Districts, State headquarters and other organizations/agencies, including those at Government of India level.

f

Enabling and assisting the senior Police Officers in better management of Police Force.

g

Keep track of the progress of the crime and criminal investigation and prosecution Cases, including progress of cases in the Courts.

h

Reduction in manual and redundant Record keeping.

CCTNS will cover all the Police Stations in the States/UTs and also the higher offices up to State/UT Hqrs. All these locations will be networked by providing appropriate high-speed connectivity for data transfer and sharing of information amongst various Police offices.

The Software Development Agency (WIPRO), the CCTNS team of NCRB and the Central Project Management Team together are working tirelessly to meet the stringent time lives set the various deliverables of the project. Several meetings have been conducted/ are being conducted with different level officers / personnel to sort out implementation issues at State / UT level and to make the software user friendly and easy to use by incorporating all important functionalities.

NCRB is the first organisation to have installed the Automated Finger Print Identification System (AFIS) called Fingerprint Analysis and Criminal Tracking System (FACTS) in India, which at present, only a few countries in the world may claim to have. Digitized fingerprints database is also being maintained at NCRB. In the near future, CCTNS would be integrated with AFIS with the live scanner based remote query facility and it would be one of the largest networked computer-systems in India, in the aid of the Criminal Justice System.

The Bureau has developed several software application packages, with resources from within. These include Motor Vehicle /Property-Coordination System, Talash information System which are in use by the Police departments across the Country.

The Portrait Building System developed by the Bureau has been of immense use to the Investigating Officers of Police / Law enforcement departments as it provides them vital clue / lead for identifying the accused / suspects from the description given by the complainant and witnesses. NCRB is in the process of releasing a totally revamped and user friendly Colour Portrait Building System shortly.

The proposal for bringing out complete web enabled version of Motor Vehicle Coordination System, with "On line" data transfer updates, retrieval /reports generation, for authorized users is under testing phase and is likely to be released by the year-end.

The annual publications of the Bureau viz. 'Crime in India', 'Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India' and 'Prison Statistics India' are providing relevant and useful data and detailed statistical information on crime, Accidental deaths & suicides and Prisons in the country. These publications are in great demand within the country and abroad. With a view to benefit the stakeholders, NCRB has digitized all the editions of these reports ('Crime in India' from 1953 onwards, 'Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India' from 1967 onwards and 'Prison Statistics India' 1995 from onwards) and made available on NCRB website. These reports can be downloaded by the stakeholders for the purpose of reference and their use.

Each year this Bureau conducts an average 22 training programmes for Indian Police Officers in subject like Programming in .NET, Computer Basics and Office Automation, Network and e-Security, Advanced Finger Print Science, Operators course on Crime in India & Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India and Prison Statistics etc. NCRB also conducts the courses on “Training of Trainers” for development of training resource persons in Police.

Four Regional Police Computer Training VCentres (RPCTCs) in Hyderabad, Gandhinagar, Lucknow and Kolkata are also conducting various training courses on behalf of NCRB.

Besides training Indian Police Officers, NCRB also conducts 12 weeks training programme for Foreign Police Officers under Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC), Special Commonwealth African Assistance Programme (SCAAP) and Technical Cooperation Scheme (TCS) of Colombo Plan of Ministry of External Affairs. Two programs viz., Information Technology for Law Enforcement and Advanced Finger Print Science and Computers are conducted for these officers from January to March every year.

So far NCRB has trained more than 46000 Indian Police Officers and 594 Foreign Police Officers and Fingerprint Experts.

We have great team in the Bureau committed to the achievement of organizations goals, including the latest mandate i.e. the coordination and monitoring of the CCTNS Project.

Suggestions for further improvement are welcome and solicited.

 

Shri. Shafi Alam
Director General, NCRB