egov india 2010
Public safety & security
Modernise policing, with ICT A safe and secure state is not only comforting for citizens but also gives fillip to economic activities and growth
(L-R) Ajay Sharma, Global Head -Pre Sales & Solutions, TCS; Puneet Gupta, Vice President, Public Sector, IBM India; Prakash Kumar, Director Internet, Cisco Systems India; Sanjay Sahay, IGP, Police Computer Wing, Karnataka; Loknath Behera, IGP, National Investigation Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI (Chair); T Krishna Prasad, IGP and Director, Police Communications, Andhra Pradesh
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he session discussed the state of modernisation of security forces, especially of the police force, which is poor to say the least. It was moderated by Loknath Behra, IGP, National Investigation Agency. In his opening remarks, Behra said that a safe state would foster growth. “The Prime Minister has said that unless there is security there will be no development. It is quite essential and the need of the hour to modernise, equip and strengthen the security forces with latest technology and assist in dealing with the security threats in a better manner,” he noted. T Krishna Prasad, IGP and Director, Police Communications, Andhra Pradesh Police,
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kits to access database of various departments. This would help in establishing identification of various individuals,” he stated. Puneet Gupta, Vice President—Public Sector, IBM India, spoke about integrated intelligence solutions which can assist agencies in anticipating and preventing events like 26/11 and 9/11. He laid stress on refining the data into intelligence and said, “We don’t have any dearth of data around us, but we need mechanisms through which we can standardise the data format, and analyse and share it across agencies.” He also spoke about the advanced identity recognition and resolution technologies, wherein the system can throw back data once something similar is fed into it, thus helping in establishing any relationship between identical inputs. Initiating his presentation with brief note on CCTNS, Sanjay Sahay, IGP, Head of Police Computer Wing, Karnataka Police said that Wipro Infotech had been chosen to develop the core application software in 52 weeks. The project is to be completed by the end of the financial year 2010-2011 and would enable the delivery of nine citizen services of the police department. He underlined that the ICT framework for security is mainly limited to the command and control centres and the safe-city concept. Rural India has been quite aloof from the modernisation of security systems. Ajay Sharma, Global Head—Presales and Solutions, TCS, said what is more needed is capacity building and change management for the security personnel. Terming cyber security
Automation of various policing processes is needed and can markedly improve law and order situation in the country outlined the state of computerisation in AP police and said that since January 2009, the first information reports (FIR) were being posted online. “In 2010, the entire investigation process has been made online, including filing of charge-sheets and appeals. We have a database of 17 lakh FIRs and 6,000 criminals and history sheets, unidentified dead bodies and most importantly the investigation tool
as another area to be guarded, he emphasised on a more serious and focused approach towards it. Prakash Kumar, Director Internet, Cisco Systems India, Cisco, brought home the point that in an event of terrorist attack, the most essential thing is to disseminate the real-time information about the event and channel it to the authorities and to have a reliable G2G communication network. September 2010 / www.egovonline.net / egov
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