Hyderabad, January 12: About 1,600 police stations in Andhra Pradesh will soon be equipped with ”live” scanners and four-finger print scanners as part of a project that integrates the Finger Print Bureau with police infrastructure for effective tracking of criminal records.
The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CTNS) project is an e-governance initiative of the Union Home Ministry and aims to create a comprehensive and integrated system for effective and efficient policing through a nationwide network with a bottom-to-top approach.
However, lack of trained and exclusive manpower seems to have hampered the plans of the Andhra Pradesh-FPB which has sought towards earmarking separate manpower to the Bureau in order to get better results.
As part of the second phase of implementation of the CCTNS project, live scanners and four-finger print scanners will be provided to around 1,600 police stations in the state, AP Finger Prints Bureau Director T Rajendra Prasad told PTI.
“Fingerprint is one of the priority areas of the CCTNS project. It creates a platform for sharing crime and criminal information and Finger Print Data across the country in real time,” he said.
For the success of CCTNS, the Finger Print data along with textual and demographic data has to be supplied from the police station level to the Automated Finger Prints Identification System (AFIS) at district, state and national level.
But, at present the police personnel at police station level are over-burdened with other tasks including maintaining law and order and similar other duties, Prasad said.
If separate police force is deputed for the purpose then the clarity and correctness of the data input will improve which, in turn, will help in the identification and speedy detection of cases and also integration of data through Finger Prints, Prasad explained.
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