Chandigarh: Haryana Police has secured the first position in the latest Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network System (CCTNS) pragati ranking released at all India level. In the month of February this year, the State Police secured the top position with 99.99 marks.

Giving information, a police spokesperson informed that this ranking has been released for February 2023. Haryana Police has achieved this position by outperforming many states which have dominated the all India CCTNS rankings so far.

DGP Haryana PK Agarwal has patted the entire police department for repeating this achievement once again. He said that Haryana Police's excellent performance in the field of CCTNS at the national level would boost the morale of the police to further use this technology more efficiently in their daily work.

Additional Director General of Police, Crime, OP Singh said that the CCTNS project implementation has been made possible by the dedicated and joint efforts of all field level police officers in SCRB and the state level CCTNS team. The system deals with the adoption of digital tracking of criminals and police investigation. Haryana Police has achieved the top position by performing excellently in all parameters.

CCTNS stands for Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network System, a mission mode project sponsored by the Central Government. The objective of the project is to create a comprehensive and integrated e-system to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of policing at all levels and particularly at the police station level.

Giving information, the police spokesperson said that CCTNS software has been implemented in all the police stations of the state. Apart from this, connectivity has also been made available in the police stations of all the districts.

He said that the key objective of the police department is to maintain law and order. The police department should continuously improve its skills so that better services can be provided to the people of the state.

Even before this, the Haryana Police has been awarded the first rank among all the major states of the country in the implementation of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) project. The award was received at the annual CCTNS, Conference on Good Practices in Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) organized by the National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, in New Delhi.

The award was presented to the Haryana Police in the presence of Union Home Secretary and other high officials. On behalf of the police, the award was received by Inspector General of Police Karnal Range Satendra Kumar Gupta and Superintendent of Police Panipat Shashank Kumar Sawan. The award was given for consistently maintaining the first position on the progress dashboard on more than 20 parameters throughout the year.

Haryana Police, under the supervision of OP Singh, Director, Haryana, SCRB and Nodal Officer, CCTNS-ICJS, has developed special techniques to analyze crime-related data, on which a special presentation was made by Superintendent of Police, Panipat, Shashank Kumar. The said technology was well received by the authorities across the country. NCRB Director Vivek Gogia had talked about studying the technology and implementing it across the country. /BI/