Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project, started in the year 2009. It aimed to inter-link all police stations under a common application software for the purpose of investigation, data analytics, research, policy making and providing Citizen Services such as reporting & tracking of complaints, request for antecedent verifications by Police etc. The project is being implemented with close collaboration between States and Union Government.
Wherein Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) has been established to make the justice delivery system more effective. The main objective of the ICJS is to integrate main pillars of criminal justice, i.e. the Police (CCTNS), Courts (e-Courts), Jails (e-Prisons), Forensic Lab (e-Forensic) and Prosecution (e-Prosecution). This process would require the data to be entered into the system only once (one data once entry) and the various databases available could be used for criminal investigation in a joint manner.
New Features / Uses for Police Investigation in CCTNS/ICJS :-
- In all the States, the facility of extracting mini-docket reports on crime and criminals is available from ICJS on a recurring basis.
- Investigation Tracking System for Sexual Offences (ITSSO), an online analytical tool, has been launched to monitor and track police investigations in two months in sexual offences as per Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2018.
- Ministry of Home Affairs has launched a "National Database of Sexual Offenders" (NDSO). Police officers use this database to identify repeat offenders, receive alerts on sex offenders, and sensitive institutions like educational institutions, hotels, public traffic etc.
- Adjournment Alert module, an alert mechanism module has been developed in the e-Prosecution application as a step towards facilitating States/UTs to ensure timeliness in disposal of criminal cases. As per the new feature, whenever a Government Prosecutor seeks an adjournment in a criminal case more than twice, the system has a provision to send an alert to senior officers.
- Cri-MAC (Crime Multi Agency Center) was implemented on 12 March 2020. Cri-MAC facility has been introduced for police stations and higher offices in all States/UTs to share information on heinous crime and other issues related to coordination in cases of inter-state crime. It can be used to spread alerts / information on crime and inter-state criminals to the States/UTs through email and SMS.
- The Modus Operandi (MO) records available in the Crime and Criminal Tacking & Network Systems (CCTNS) and the e-Prisons applications can be accessed by the investigating officers online across the country. This feature can act as a vital investigative aid for police officers. The Bureau of Police research and Development (BPR&D) has setup a Modus Operandi Bureau (MOB) to conduct research.
- NCRB has launched three new Central Citizen Services on digitalpolicecitizenservice.gov.in portal that can be accessed online These services include:
- Missing Person Search
- Generate Vehicle NOC
- Proclaimed offenders
- Two National level automatic alert services have been launched that generate and send alerts to concerned police stations on missing & found person and missing & found vehicle matches.
- Criminal Network Link Analysis module developed under ICJS.
- NCRB has also launched an automated photo matching web-based application UNIFY that uses Machine learning model to enable police personnel to search the photographs of missing persons/ criminals/ unidentified dead bodies against the national image repository in CCTNS.
- 26627 VPN certificates issued to Law Enforcement Officers in States/UTs including RPF, NIA, CBI etc.
- Integration with other Government Databases
Data from other national databases are also available for search on the ICJS platform, such as Arms License Informatics System (ALIS), Trackchild - KhoyaPaya, National Cyber-Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP), Immigration Visa and Foreigners Registration Tracking System (IVFRT), Vahan & Sarathi, Railway Protection Force (RPF), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and National Investigation Agency (NIA).
