MHA (CCTNS)Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems

MHA (CCTNS)Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems

Hon'ble Union Home Minister mentioned the role of NCRB and CCTNS during the IB Endowment lecture at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 23/12/2009 in the following words. "The police stations in the country are, today, virtually unconnected islands. Thanks to telephones and wireless, and especially thanks to mobile telephones, there is voice connectivity between the police station and senior police officers, but that is about all. There is no system of data storage, data sharing and accessing data. There is no system under which one police station can talk to another directly. There is no record of crimes or criminals that can be accessed by a Station House Officer, except the manual records relating to that police station. Realising the gross deficiency in connectivity, the Central government is implementing an ambitious scheme called "Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS)". The goals of the system are to facilitate collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, transfer and sharing of data and information at the police station and between the police station and the State Headquarters and the Central Police Organisations.

Review:
"SNOOPING, surveillance, tracking and constructing logs that help profile people is entering the routineness of state practice. The instrumentalities that are created to carry out these tasks invariably inhabit spaces where they are shielded from scrutiny, supervision, audit and accountability. Acronyms abound: NTRO, NCTC, CCTNS,  MAC, NIA, Natgrid, UID, PII."