KOCHI: The Police Department is planning to roll out the first phase of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) by this year end. The project sponsored by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has been tendered to the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) which will implement and support its trial run in the state. The CCTNS will collect, store, retrieve, analyse, transfer and share data and information across the police stations in the state. Parassala, Kattappana and Ernakulam Central police stations have been selected for the pilot programme. The first phase of the programme includes the installation and commissioning of hardware, connectivity, other infrastructure and associated services. The network will be launched on the Linux platform. The core application software (CAS) will be installed at these police stations. The customisation of the CAS will be done according to the requirements of the police stations concerned. The phase-I of the project will include the digitisation of historical data for the past 10 years. The system will also be implemented in the three offices of the state Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) by this year end, an official with the SCRB said. In the second and third phases, the entire state will be brought under the system. The other investigation and law enforcing agencies such as courts, immigration and passport offices, forensic labs and Central agencies will also form part of the network. “There is a need to strengthen the citizens’ interface with the police. The CCTNS will be helpful in creating links with the jail authorities, hospitals, mobile phone companies, Motor Vehicles Department and municipal authorities. It will enable the police to share information between the departments in other states too. The police officials would be trained to handle the system,” the SCRB official said.
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