- NCRB shall empower Indian Police with Information Technology and Criminal Intelligence to enable them to effectively enforce the law and improve public service delivery.
- This shall be achieved through coordination with police forces at National and International level, upgradation of Crime analysis technology, developing IT capacity, IT enabled solutions compliance & continued improvement of QMS.
Established on 11th March 1986 with following objectives :
- To prepare an enabling IT environment - policy framework, guidelines, architecture, best practices for Police Forces throughout the country To improve knowledge based pro-active policing with the use of IT for improving internal efficiency, effectiveness and public service delivery
- To lead and coordinate development of IT products and build a National Resource Centre of IT solutions for police organizations
- To create and maintain secure sharable National Databases on crimes, criminals, property and organized criminal gangs for law enforcement agencies and promote their use for public service delivery
- To obtain, compile, analyze and publish the National Crime Statistics
- To obtain, process and disseminate finger print records of criminals including foreign criminals to establish their identity; promote automation of State Finger Print Bureaux and encourage research for the development of Finger Print Science
- To provide training in IT and Finger Print Science for capacity building in Police Forces
- To coordinate development of Modern State Crime Records Bureaux
- To interact with Foreign Police Forces to share IT practices and crime information.
