Indian police to be networked to speed up probe

NEW DELHI, INDIA: In a bid to speed up the crime investigation processes in the country, the government has cleared a project titled 'Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems', which will interconnect 14,000 police stations and 6,000 police officers across India. The implementation of the project will be done by 2012.

“The government has clearance to the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems project, which would help in evolution of IT-enabled state-of-the-art tracking system around investigation of crime and detection of criminals in the real time,” Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken informed the Rajya Sabha.

In the implementation of the project, the major role would be with the states while the role of the central government would be largely confined to development and management of the core application software and aspects pertaining to issuing guidelines, review and monitoring of the project implementation, Maken added.