New Delhi, Aug 2 (ANI): Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today said the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems (CCTNS) Project has been launched recently under it nearly 15,015 police stations and 7,000 higher offices including circles, districts, sub-divisions, state headquarters, etc. throughout the country have been proposed to be automated.

"The CCTNS Scheme is proposed to be implemented in a Mission Mode, and has the following objectives:-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, improving delivery of citizen-centric services through effective usage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)," said Jitendra Singh

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

improve the police functioning in various other areas such as law and order, traffic management, curbing organized crimes, resource management etc.," he added.

Jitendra Singh talking about the objectives of the scheme further said : " 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, enabling and assisting the senior Police Officers in better management of Police Force."

"Keep track of the progress of the crime and criminal investigation and prosecution cases, including progress of cases in the courts, reduction in manual and redundant Record keeping," he added.

Jitendra Singh said the government proposes to connect the police stations through a comprehensive network using various modes like State Area Wide Network, Virtual Private Network over Broadband (VPNoBB), Multi Protocol Label Switching Virtual private Network (MPLS VPN), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax)/Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) as per feasibility.

Under CCTNS Project, 2.5 lakh police personnel of States/UTs have been trained so far in basic I.T. awareness. The process is still continuing. The training on CCTNS software will commence after its roll out in States/UTs in the last week of December 2011," said Jitendra Singh.

"Under the project, Capacity building (Infrastructure) is also being created by way of setting up/ strengthening of Police Training Colleges, Regional Training Colleges, District Training Colleges for imparting training to police personnel," he added. (ANI)