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Bhubaneswar:1/March/2007
Receiving a copy of the first information report (FIR) from the police station will be instant with the click of the mouse.
Sitting in his office, Director General of Police Amarananda Pattnayak can keep track of the status of any case in any of the 45 police stations of the state online.
He can as well sit in his chambers and at the click of the computer mouse can go through the filed FIR and pass on necessary instructions to the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the police station.
All this will be a reality on March 5, when the Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) will be in place in the 45 police stations of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Angul and Ganjam police districts.
As a pilot project these police stations have been identified and accordingly the four day’s training program for the police officers has been launched on February 28.
Inaugurating the program Tarun Kanti Mishra, Principal Secretary Home department said that “It will bring transparency and availability of authenticated information at the click of the mouse”.
Mr. Mishra said a police station is the primary unit for public interface for law and order and improving the efficiency of police stations was therefore vital for enhancing the image of the police in the minds of citizens.
Mr.Mishra has been instrumental is computerizing the Land Records system in Revenue department.
DGP Mr.Pattnayak , Crime Branch Chief B K Sharma, Superintendent of Police of the concerned police districts and other senior police officials were present.
Orissa will be the fifth state in implementing CIPA as the Rajasthan, Himchal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi have already implemented the program.
CIPA is a mission mode project under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), aims at automating the workflow at the police station and reducing paper work substantially.
Each police station will be provided with requisite hardware and software. A technical holding support will be provided for 6 months, said Ambarish Kumar, Director Technical of NIC.
The computer will be hooked to the main server in the State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB), said Dr.Kumar.
And SCRB will be connected to National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), said an official.
This will result in receiving authenticated data on criminals at a faster pace.
From the FIR to the charge-sheet in a case, everything will be fed into the computer for easy access and reference.
Every crime record will be available online which makes file monitoring easy.
Each case requires seven FIR copies and the subsequent stages also involve heavy paper work.
With computerization, the paper work will not only be reduced but also helps in cost-cutting, pointed out an official..
He said 135 police personnel, including constables, are being trained for the operation.
In 2007-08, 130 more police stations will be included in CIPA and rest will be covered in 2008-09, said sources.
Orissa have 467 police stations.
However all out support for the computerization will be provided, said B K Goirola, Director General of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), while replying to queries over video conferencing.
Receiving a copy of the first information report (FIR) from the police station will be instant with the click of the mouse.
Sitting in his office, Director General of Police Amarananda Pattnayak can keep track of the status of any case in any of the 45 police stations of the state online.
He can as well sit in his chambers and at the click of the computer mouse can go through the filed FIR and pass on necessary instructions to the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the police station.
All this will be a reality on March 5, when the Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) will be in place in the 45 police stations of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Angul and Ganjam police districts.
As a pilot project these police stations have been identified and accordingly the four day’s training program for the police officers has been launched on February 28.
Inaugurating the program Tarun Kanti Mishra, Principal Secretary Home department said that “It will bring transparency and availability of authenticated information at the click of the mouse”.
Mr. Mishra said a police station is the primary unit for public interface for law and order and improving the efficiency of police stations was therefore vital for enhancing the image of the police in the minds of citizens.
Mr.Mishra has been instrumental is computerizing the Land Records system in Revenue department.
DGP Mr.Pattnayak , Crime Branch Chief B K Sharma, Superintendent of Police of the concerned police districts and other senior police officials were present.
Orissa will be the fifth state in implementing CIPA as the Rajasthan, Himchal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi have already implemented the program.
CIPA is a mission mode project under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), aims at automating the workflow at the police station and reducing paper work substantially.
Each police station will be provided with requisite hardware and software. A technical holding support will be provided for 6 months, said Ambarish Kumar, Director Technical of NIC.
The computer will be hooked to the main server in the State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB), said Dr.Kumar.
And SCRB will be connected to National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), said an official.
This will result in receiving authenticated data on criminals at a faster pace.
From the FIR to the charge-sheet in a case, everything will be fed into the computer for easy access and reference.
Every crime record will be available online which makes file monitoring easy.
Each case requires seven FIR copies and the subsequent stages also involve heavy paper work.
With computerization, the paper work will not only be reduced but also helps in cost-cutting, pointed out an official..
He said 135 police personnel, including constables, are being trained for the operation.
In 2007-08, 130 more police stations will be included in CIPA and rest will be covered in 2008-09, said sources.
Orissa have 467 police stations.
However all out support for the computerization will be provided, said B K Goirola, Director General of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), while replying to queries over video conferencing.
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