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Context: In 2018, then National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Director said that investigating agencies should be allowed to access the fingerprint data of Aadhaar to identify criminals. NCRB is the nodal agency for the implementation of CCTNS.

More about news:

• The idea of boosting investigative capabilities through technological interventions such as biological sample collection and iris scans in aid of fingerprints has been in the works for several years.
• The government has been digitising fingerprints, IRIS scans and facial recognition systems into the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS), the national database on crimes and criminals.

About Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS)

• Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) is a Mission Mode project under the National e-Governance Plan for creating a single repository of crime and criminal data for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing at the Police Station level.
• Out of total 16,098 police stations in the country, the CCTNS software is being implemented in over 95 per cent of police stations and connectivity is available at 97per cent police stations. 93 per cent police stations are entering 100 percent FIRs through CCTNS.
• CCTNS also created facilities and mechanism to provide public services like registration of online complaints, ascertaining the status of case registered at the police station, verification of persons etc.
• Its aims to
  • 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.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-over-the-years-integrating-data-scaling-up-7841721/

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