The ambitious Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and System (CCTNS) project will be operationalised by 31st of March next year. The project aims to connect all police stations in the country with the objective of tracking crime and criminals related data on real time. <br/><br/> Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that so far 12,665 Police Stations and around five thousand higher offices have been integrated to the system. CCTNS project will digitise data related to FIR registration, investigation and charge sheets in all police stations.

The ambitious Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and System (CCTNS) project will be operationalised by 31st of March next year. <br/><br/>The project aims to connect all police stations in the country with the objective of tracking crime and criminals related data on real time. <br/><br/>Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that so far, 12,665 police stations and around five thousand higher offices have been integrated to the system. <br/><br/>CCTNS project will interconnect about 15,000 police stations and additional 5,000 offices of supervisory police officers across the country and digitize data related to FIR registration, investigation and charge sheets in all police stations.<br/><br/>The full implementation of the project with all the new components would lead to a central citizen portal having linkages with state level citizen portals that will provide a number of citizen-friendly services. <br/><br/>These include services like police verification for various purposes like issuance of passport, reporting a crime and online tracking of the case progress, online reporting of grievances against police officials, accessing victim compensation fund and legal services.