NCRB launches 2 online services related to Search of Missing Persons & to Generate Vehicle NOC

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New Delhi : National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) launched Police related Citizen centric services on Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) platform here on January 29, 2020. Director, Intelligence Bureau, Arvind Kumar, presided over the two launches. These online services will help Citizens in searching their Missing Persons and Generating Vehicle NOC.

The services can be accessed through ‘digitalpolicecitizenservices.gov.in’ portal or through a link in the existing ‘Digital Police Portal’. So far such services are being provided through the state citizen portals and it is the first time that these are being launched centrally.

Director, NCRB, Ram Phal Pawar while addressing the gathering  informed that the two citizen services namely ‘Missing Person Search’ and ‘Generate Vehicle NOC’ will now be available online to Citizens. They can search for their missing kin against the national database of recovered unidentified found person/unidentified dead bodies from their homes. This will hugely benefit relatives of missing persons and save them from running around pillar to post, as all such details including photos are available in Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System and will now be accessible to citizens through this portal at their convenience.

In this user friendly search, the citizen may enter search criteria in the portal and the system will search it from the available national database across country and will display the result immediately with photograph and other details.

Director Pawar also explained about another service for citizens ‘Generate Vehicle NOC’ which 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. This search could be made against National database based on vehicle’s details; one can generate and download the relevant NOC, required by the RTO before the transfer of ownership.

NCRB and Cyber Peace foundation together have designed CCTNS Hackathon and Cyber Challenge 2020 with the aim to enhancing skills and knowledge of law enforcement personnel at ground level.

NCRB and National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), USA, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to receive information on such material originating from India. NCMEC is a non-profit organisation established by the United States Congress. It has a centralised reporting system by which internet service providers across the world or intermediaries like facebook, youtube, etc. can report about persons who circulate images of child pornography, according to a PIB release.

Director, Intelligence Bureau, inaugurated the Cyber Tipline monitoring facility at the NCRB. He reiterated that intersection between crime and technology is more apparent today than ever before. Digital technologies and the internet have not only spurred cyber crimes but also made them much more sophisticated. It is therefore requisite for law enforcement agencies to be skilled in the use of latest technology and adopt innovative methods to track, investigate and combat cybercrimes.

Director Pawar informed that approximately 25,000 Cyber Tipline Reports have been received so far and shared with States/UTs of which 15 were of very high priority. As per details shared by States/UTs, 57 FIRs have already been registered.