Vijay Kumar Singh hopes that by 2012, most of those he gets to see in person would be potential
criminals.
Well, Singh happens to be a cop. And those whom he intends to spare from his appointment diary are the general public. Singh’s hopes are pinned on a new automated complaint filing and tracking system
that the ministry of home affairs (MHA) plans to roll out across India, aimed at trimming the time the general public spends in doing the labyrinthine rounds of the good old police station.
At the Greater Kailash-1 police station in South Delhi, where Singh is the station house officer, the existing Zipnet search is pretty much an ornament. The system tracks from a set base of data, often outdated, and fails to read the latest inputs from other law enforcement agencies.
The new integrated system police officers like Singh are looking forward to will network
initially 14,000 police stations across the country, and all the 6,000 higher offices in police hierarchy (like headquarters, range offices, zonal offices). It will bring the benefits of India Inc’s technology prowess to this British era institution, hopes Singh.
The MHA contract pegged at Rs 2,000 crore will come up for bidding on Tuesday. Around 12 companies, including Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, IBM and Accenture, would be participating to devise the system, slugged CCTNS—Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems.
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