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The drawbacks came to the fore when Rahul Singh of IT electronics department of the state government reached here for an interactive session with clerk grade employees of government offices at the Rifle Club on Wednesday.

An official source informed that the tracking system would cover all States and Union Territories of the country.

The system is being taken up as mission mode project under the Government of India's national e-governance plan (NeGP .

The home ministry is working on an ambitious project to collect the fingerprints, palm prints, faces and iris samples of all the arrested and convicted persons in the country and store these in a central database. This biometric data will be accessible to all the police units across the country for getting real-time results on the identity of a suspect.

"District Karnal became the first district of Haryana where finger print capturing system has been implemented as pilot project," an official spokesman said in Chandigarh.

CCTNS would equip the cops to create a database of crime and criminals along with their biometric profiles. The training centre will have a trained group of 20 cops, who will act as resource persons. The CCTNS and other computer facilities have already been set up.

The system will be piloted at the Parasala, Kattapana and Ernakulam central police stations and its higher offices in the state. Kerala police has also invited proposals from system Integrators for the implementation, commissioning and maintenance of the project in the 482 odd police stations, 776 higher police offices including the police headquarters and 102 other related offices like prisons, immigrations offices and forensic science labs.

CCTNS is an e-governance initiative of the Union Home Ministry and aims to create a comprehensive and integrated system for effective and efficient policing through a nationwide network with a bottom-to-top approach.

However, lack of trained and exclusive manpower seems to be hampering the plans of the Andhra Pradesh FPB which has sought separate manpower for the Bureau in order to get better results.

Responding to the proposal of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the state home department has almost completed the procedure to launch the CCTNS. “The MHA has been implementing the project across the country. However, Maharashtra could be first state to roll out the project as the preparation from our side has been completed,” said additional chief secretary UC Sarangi.

Ashok Dhiware, the state CID chief said CCTNS is likely to be launched nationwide in January 2012. “With CCTNS, facilities like information on modus operandi of various crimes registered at all police stations, analysis and trends of crimes and criminals, the status of various crimes would be available at a click of a mouse,” said Dhiware at a press conference.

Come December 15, the antecedents of a criminal from West Bengal can be traced easily by the Ahmedabad police. Similarly, the fingerprints of an accused in Haryana can be matched by sitting in a small station in Andhra Pradesh.

Thanks to the advent of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS), policing will henceforth be more people-friendly and less of a drudgery for police personnel. One of the 27 components of the Union government's e-governance project, this module dedicated to the Police Department, is being developed to make law enforcement and crime control easy.

The e-Governance programme aimed at creating a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled system to track crimes and detection of criminals has been made operational in 30 centres including important police establishments.

Through this process the government made India a safe heaven for cyber criminals. The cyber criminals are virtually free to do whatever they want because at best they can be caught and then have to be set free because Indian cyber law is toothless in this regard. Even these cyber criminals would be very difficult to nab as Indian law enforcement is not well trained to deal with cyber crimes.

The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) aims at providing the Investigating Officers with technology, tools, and information to facilitate investigation of crime and detection of criminals, sources said.

Jharkhand will soon be a part of the ambitious crime and criminal tracking network system (CCTNS) project of the Union Home Ministry to keep tab on crime and criminals in the state.

Setting the tone for its priority towards bringing about qualitative change in approach of policing, the newly installed Arjun Munda government has given its go ahead to the plan at the first cabinet meeting.

The project, which aims at cracking down on people using the Internet for fraud and other crimes, and at effective enforcement of the IT Act, will be implemented by next fiscal.

Users can log on to www.cyberkeralam.in and register themselves. They will be given a password using which they can share their grievances with experts at C-DAC.

The new Rules pertaining to various sections such as procedure and safeguards for interception, monitoring and decryption of information, procedure for monitoring and collecting traffic data or information have also been notified. The information technology legislation was enacted in 2000 to provide legal recognition to e-commerce and e-transactions, to facilitate e-governance, and to prevent computer-based crimes.

Presiding over a meeting of the Punjab State Empowered Committee for the implementation of Crime Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS Project) here Gill said that new inventions in IT and communications besides helping the investigators were posing a great challenge for security forces as criminals were using latest fads in technology to hoodwink the security network. He said that challenge before security forces was to move to step ahead the hi-tech criminals to pre-empt their nefarious designs.

The Government of West Bengal has initiated the process for launching the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) forward.

CCTNS is a Mission Mode Project conceptualised and sponsored by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of police departments across the country.

Technology firm Wipro Ltd is likely to be awarded a contract to electronically link police stations nationwide and digitize criminal records for seamless flow of information in one of India’s largest e-governance projects.

The company emerged as the lowest bidder among eight finalists in the auction for the Rs2,000 crore Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project, according to officials of the home ministry and the department of information technology (DIT).