The state government on Thursday launched its most ambitious information technology project eGujCop, a system that will connect all of Gujarat Police's 1,000 police stations and other departments with the Home Department through the electronic platform. Chief Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the project at Bhaskarcharya Institute for Space Sciences and Geo-Informatics (BISAG) in Gandhinagar.

The programme, running under the Information Technology Enabled System (ITES), has been designed to bring a simple, fast, transparent and effective connection between the police departments converting the procedures online through a specially designed database.

Addressing the live telecast of the event through BISAG Satcom band, Modi said, "The project, established at a cost of Rs 150 crore, has been acknowledged by the Centre as a successful model. The project will bring a paradigm shift in the functioning of the police department, reducing their workload through the e-document system. In a way, eGujCop could prove more effective than even AK-47."

The system links over 1,000 physical entities, including police stations, jails, home guards, the forensic science lab, the Prohibition and Anti-Corruption Bureau, with data about police and other security personnel, as well as a databank of criminals. Modi also said the technology should instil fear among the criminals. It should also strengthen the morale of the police force.

According to Additional Chief Secretary (Home) S K Nanda, "The eGujCop Project would function in three stages beginning with the conversion of database and records into e-files. The project will later head to converting the FIR into e-FIRs, when police officers will lodge complaints directly on the computer and begin investigation.

"This advanced system would facilitate and expedite investigations and hence reduce crime rate eventually," he added. "It will bring transparency in registration of cases," Nanda added.The programme was prepared from over an year in the State Crime Record Bureau under the leadership of DIG Manoj Agarwal. The SCRB was compiling all the records of the city as well as the district police stations across the state into one the database through this software, which will allow the cops to access all police stations and cases online.

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