NCRB Launches two online national level services related to Search of Missing Persons and to Generate Vehicle NOC; starts CCTNS Hackathon & Cyber Challenge

National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) launched Police related Citizen centric services like Search of Missing Persons and to Generate Vehicle NOC on CCTNS platform.

About Search of Missing Persons

• The Citizens can search for their missing kins against the national database of the recovered unidentified found person/unidentified dead bodies from their homes.

About Generate Vehicle NOC

• ‘Generate Vehicle NOC’ allows citizens to ascertain the status of a vehicle before its second-hand purchase, as to whether it is suspicious or clean from Police records.

About Crime & Criminal Tracking Network and Systems

• The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems (CCTNS) was conceptualized by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• CCTNS aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effective policing at all levels and especially at the Police Station level.

Objectives

• Provide Citizen-Centric Police Services via a web portal
• Pan India search on National database of Crime & Criminal records
• Crime and Criminal reports at State and Center
• Computerization of Police Processes

National Crime Records Bureau

• The National Crime Records Bureau, abbreviated to NCRB, is an Indian government agency responsible for collecting and analysing crime data as defined by the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Special and Local Laws (SLL).
• NCRB is headquartered in New Delhi and is part of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India.
• The current Director of NCRB is Ramphal Pawar (IPS).
• NCRB was set-up in 1986 to function as a repository of information on crime and criminals so as to assist the investigators in linking crime to the perpetrators. It was set up based on the recommendation of the Task force,
• 1985 and National Police Commission,1977 by merging the Directorate of Coordination and Police Computer (DCPC), Inter State Criminals Data Branch of CBI and Central Finger Print Bureau of CBI.
• Earlier Statistical Branch of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) was also merged with NCRB, but was later de-merged.

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