Implement CCTNS project fully: DGP

DGP Dilbag Singh along with other senior police officers releasing Crime Gazette.
DGP Dilbag Singh along with other senior police officers releasing Crime Gazette.

* Approves funds for new sites, hardware

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, July 18: The 27th UT Empowered Committee meeting for implementation of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems (CCTNS) project in J&K was held today under the chairmanship of Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh here to discuss the issues pertaining to CCTNS.
Special DGP Crime J&K, AK Choudhary, ADGP (Hqrs) PHQ, MK Sinha, ADGP (Coord) PHQ, Danesh Rana, AIG (Personnel), PHQ Ramesh Angral, AIG (P/T) PHQ Gurinderpal Singh, AIG (CIV) PHQ, Rajesh Bali, SO to SDG Crime J&K Amarjeet Singh, AIG (Comm) PHQ, Manoj Kumar Pandith, Technical Director (NIC) J&K Tahir Mahajan, DySP Training/IT PHQ Dr Mudasir Ahmad Tramboo, DySP Crime (CICE) Musadiq Basu and Project Manager, System Integrator CCTNS project J&K members of the UT Empowered Committee were present in the meeting.
Managing Director, PHC, J&K /DG Prosecution, Deepak Kumar, Director Police Telecom, J&K, Shridhar Patil and Joint Director NCRB Pawan Bhardwaj attended the meeting through video conferencing.
Addressing the officers, the DGP impressed that all the necessary measures must be taken to implement the project fully. He directed the officers of Crime Headquarters to verify and check the working of different Police Stations covered under CCTNS. He directed that all supervisory district officers should maintain a regular watch on the functioning of CCTNS of their Police Stations and they should provide the feedback regarding the working of CCTNS to the Crime Headquarters in a time bound manner so that any loopholes found are corrected. He directed that all measures must be followed to completely switch over the system.
The DGP approved the necessary funds for the site preparations and hardware for new Police Stations which have been sanctioned by the Government. With this all the Police Stations across UT J&K will be covered by the CCTNS. For popularizing the CCTNS and the JKeCOP mobile App, the DGP impressed upon the officers to advertise and promote its downloading by the general public and particularly by Police personnel.
The DGP expressed his happiness for rolling out of CAS 5.0 for all Police Stations and directed the System Integrated that any difficulties/issues which may arise should be resolved as quick as possible.
Special DGP Crime J&K. the nodal officer for CCTNS conducted the proceedings of the meeting.
On the occasion, the DGP also released the Crime Gazette of 2021 prepared by Crime Headquarter J&K under the supervision of Special DGP Crime J&K.