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Police stations to register FIRs online

Special Correspondent

JAIPUR: More than a hundred police stations in Rajasthan will soon offer the facility of registering complaints (FIRs) online. The new "connectivity" between the police and the public has been brought about by computerisation of police stations in four districts of the State under Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA).

The National Informatics Centre in New Delhi under the Union Home Ministry's police modernisation project supplied the hardware for the programme. Rajasthan Police Director General A.S.Gill launched the computerisation drive in the first phase by pressing a key at the Kalawad police station in Jaipur (rural) district. As many as 103 police stations in the districts of Jaipur (rural), Alwar, Bharatpur and Bhilwara are being brought under computerisation in the first phase.

In the next phase, 217 police stations in 11 districts, including Jaipur City, Jaipur North, Jaipur South, Ajmer, Udaipur, Bikaner, Sriganganagar, Jodhpur (both City and rural) and Kota (both City and rural) will be computerised.

The first to avail of the computer facility at the Kalawad police station was Kailash, son of Laxminarain of Lalpura, who registered a complaint against Cheetar Mal, son of Ruda, in a case of alleged manhandling. Mr. Gill handed over the copy of the FIR to the complainant. "The computerisation of the police stations would not only help the common man but also save the efforts of the police personnel. The time and efforts thus saved could be utilised for investigations," said Mr. Gill.

By this coming January all the police stations in the first phase would switch over fully to computers, he said. The Director-General of the National Informatics Centre, V.K.Gerola, said the effort was to eliminate all paper work in police stations so that time could be saved in investigations and preparation of data. Director-General Police, Rajasthan State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB), Sudhakar Johari said with computerisation the police stations would be able to share information on crime and criminals at a faster pace. SCRB is entrusted with the job of training the personnel of police stations on the new software.

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