Home Minister P Chidambaram has advocated a robust real time decision support system to track down terrorists and organised criminals who have developed various channels of communication with the help of technology.<br/><br/>Addressing the Silver Jubilee function of National Crime Record Bureau in New Delhi on Thursday, the Home Minister said the challenges posed by criminality in general and other more serious manifestations of crime in particular like terrorism, insurgency, left wing extremism, trans-national crimes, drugs and arms trafficking, cyber crimes tend to establish that war against the Indian state is being fought more in the hinterland than on the borders Referring to the Home Ministry's 2,000 crore rupees ambitious Crime, Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project, the Home Minister said a conscious decision has been taken to mandate the NCRB to roll out the CCTNS.<br/> <br/>This database will have a handshake with databases of 21 other agencies of the criminal justice system like courts, jails, immigration and passport authorities, and subsequently, be extended to other national agencies through the NATGRID so that terror and crime could be fought more professionally.
News On AIR | March 11, 2010 3:04 PM
India needs real time decision support system to nab terrorists, criminals: PC