DIMAPUR: The Additional Director General of Police (Adm.) and state nodal officer of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), Renchamo P Kikon, on Friday, launched the ‘CCTNS Tech Refresh 2023’ during a programme held at the conference hall of the Police Headquarters in Kohima.
CCTNS is a flagship initiative of the Ministry of Home Affairs, government of India, for computerisation of police processes and sharing of crime and criminal data through integrated framework, stated a DIPR report.
It mentioned that CCTNS has been in use in Nagaland since 2012 and at present all 83 police stations are covered under CCTNS. The purpose of the ‘CCTNS Tech Refresh 2023’ was to upgrade the existing hardware and software to the latest platforms for improving the capabilities and efficiency of CCTNS usage primarily at the police stations.
The scope of tech-refresh 2023 covers all 83 police stations and higher offices in the state, which is being carried out in district-wise batches, the report added.
After the inaugural programme, a total of 100 workstations and accessories for CCTNS usage were issued to the first batch of offices, which included eleven police stations under Kohima, Tseminyu and state-level police stations at PHQ, two district crime records bureau under Kohima and Tseminyu, and two SP offices under Kohima and Tseminyu districts.
It informed that a total of 779 workstations/ accessories are under process to be delivered in subsequent batches covering the remaining 72 police stations, 12 DCRBs, and 12 SP offices.
In addition, workstations and accessories have also been procured for augmenting the existing CCTNS training infrastructure.
‘CCTNS Tech Refresh 2023’ has been made possible through the CCTNS fund sanctioned by MHA through the scheme ‘Assistance to States for Modernisation of Police,’ the report stated.
