NEW DELHI: The much-delayed Crime & Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), a flagship e-governance programme of the home ministry that seeks to e-integrate the country's 15,000 police stations and create a national crime and criminals database, is ready for a national rollout early next week.

Union home minister Rajnath Singh will launch the National Digital Police Portal with linkages to state-level citizen portals active across 33 states and Union Territories, creating a nationwide online tracking system around "investigation of crime and detection of criminals" in real time.

Sources in the home ministry said as many as 13,775 of the total 15,398 police stations across the country are now entering 100% data into the CCTNS software.

As many as 136 lakh FIRs have been entered till date. 33 states and UTs have launched their portals to provide citizen-centric services such as online reporting of crime, employees and antecedents verification, search of missing persons, tracking loss of property including vehicles and online tracking of complaints, etc. tnn

"Rajnath Singh was keen that Rs 2,000-crore CCTNS project be implemented at the earliest. It's a big step towards digitisation and integration of crime and criminal records," said a home ministry official.

