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Bidar police adopting IT in administration

Staff Correspondent

`Most of the communication among police stations is through email'

Bidar: From now on, state-of-the-art technology will aid Bidar police.

The State Government has initiated technology upgradation, human resource development and building construction and renovation as part of the modernisation programme.

To start with, e-mail has replaced over 90 per cent of the communication among police stations.

"After the wireless, e-mail is the most used communication channel between stations now," Superintendent of Police K.L. Sudhir said here on Saturday.

Each police station has a computer and e-mail facility. Solar power has been provided to police stations in remote areas and to those facing power cuts. All crime-related data of the last eight years has been computerised in the districts. "This includes complete information of a case from the first information report to its charge-sheet," he said.

This would be connected to the national database as part of the Crime and Criminal Information System (CCIS). CCIS enables police officials of any State to access any information anytime.

This helps track down criminals who commit offences in one State and escape into another. This will help solve new cases. "It helps the department establish antecedents of people before issuing passports," Mr. Sudhir said.

He said qualified constables, mostly women, had been given the responsibility of entering data into the computers.

A constable would spend at least three hours in data entry in every police station every day.

"In a short time, we will complete computerising the crime data for the last 10 years," he said. This data had been linked to the State crime record bureaus of neighbouring States such as Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.

The department had been equipped with a hi-tech live scanner finger print recorder and detector.

"This eliminates the use of manual methods like use of ink and carbon paper.

"It is more efficient than manual methods. Now the process of recording, storing, recognising and matching fingerprints is computerised. It ensures faster and more accurate crime detection," Mr. Sudhir said.

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