NATIONAL CRIME RECORDS BUREAU (NCRB)

 

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Topics covered: NCRB – Evolution, roles & responsibilities, functions, other wings of NCRB

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Of the over 2,000 murders reported in West Bengal in 2016, “political reasons” were cited as the motive in only one, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

 

NCRB

• NCRB was set-up in 1986 to function as a repository of information on crime and criminals.
• Based on the recommendations of the Tandon Committee to the National Police Commission (1977-1981) and the MHA’s Task-force (1985), NCRB was set up.
• It will assist the investigators in linking crime to the perpetrators.
• NCRB was entrusted with the responsibility for monitoring, coordinating and implementing the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) project in the year 2009.
• On 21st August 2017, NCRB launched the National Digital Police Portal. It allows search for a criminal/suspect on the CCTNS database.
• It will allow various services to citizens like filing of complaints online and seeking antecedent verification of tenants, domestic help, drivers etc
• The Bureau has also been entrusted to maintain the National Database of Sexual Offenders (NDSO) and share it with the States/UTs on a regular basis.
• NCRB has also been designated as the Central Nodal Agency to manage technical and operational functions of the ‘Online Cyber-Crime Reporting Portal’ through which any citizen can lodge a complaint or upload a video clip as evidence of crime related to child pornography, rape/gang rape.
• NCRB also deals with the associated work of Cyber Crime Prevention against Women & Children (CCPWC) through this portal.
• NCRB also compiles and publishes National Crime Statistics i.e. Crime in India, Accidental Deaths & Suicides and also Prison Statistics.
• NCRB has also floated various IT based Public Services like Vahan Samanvay (online matching for Stolen/Recovered vehicles) and Talash (matching of missing persons and dead bodies).
• NCRB also maintains the Counterfeit Currency Information and Management System (FICN) and Integrated Monitoring on Terrorism (iMoT) applications.
• The Central Finger Print Bureau under NCRB is a national repository of all fingerprints in the country and has more than one million ten-digit fingerprints database of criminals both convicted and arrested and provides for search facility on Fingerprint Analysis and Criminal Tracing System (FACTS).
• NCRB also assists various States in capacity building in the area of Information Technology, CCTNS, Finger Prints, Network Security and Digital Forensics.

 

Evolution of NCRB

1986	NCRB Created
1987	Motor Vehicle Coordination software (Lost and Found)
1990	Commencement of training for Foreign Police Officers
1991	Portrait Building System (PBS) developed (Colour PBS in 2011)
1993	7 IIF forms finalized.
1995	FACTS and CCIS Implementation (Windows based CCIS in 2001 & FACTS-5 in 2005)
1999	Talash software for matching of missing and dead persons
2003	Counterfeit Currency (FICN)Software released
2004	Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA)
2005	Organized Crime System software
2009	CCTNS Approval
2013	CCTNS Pilot Launch & CAS STQC certified
2014	Revised Performa and software for Crime in India, Motor Vehicle Coordination System(MVCS) Online version released
2016	Digital India Award – Silver Medal in Open Championship category (Digitization of Crime in India since 1967)
2017	Digital Police Portal launched

 

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