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To control crime in the Capital, Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora has authorised district deputy commissioners of police (DCPs) to start using the NATGRID (National Intelligence Grid) tool to track down suspects and criminals. The direction came in a meeting held to review security arrangements for the Republic Day function and the Delhi Assembly elections, at the police headquarters on Thursday.
NATGRID is a database compiled by the Ministry of Home Affairs that contains over 24 sets of data, such as immigration records, banking details, travel history, and phone data, among others, to help agencies identify and monitor suspects. It was conceived in 2008 after the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. In Delhi Police, the Crime Branch and the Special Cell have been taking the help of NATGRID to crack difficult cases. However, the local police take the help of CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System) – which currently connects all police stations across the country – to probe cases.
“This powerful tool is really helpful to track down criminals or suspects… This will certainly help the district police as well in solving cases,” said an officer.
Delhi has been divided into 15 police districts with 180 territorial police stations. To solve difficult cases, each district gets a dedicated special staff unit, along with a group of police officers.
At Thursday’s meeting, a presentation was given to all special commissioners, joint commissioners and DCPs on the functioning of NATGRID, sources said. The officers were also briefed about the applications like e-Pramaan and Chatbot. While e-Pramaan helps investigating officers in audio-video record search and seizure operations, Chatbot is an AI tool that can have a conversation with users using text or speech.
An officer said Delhi Police will also adopt whitelisting, a cyber security strategy, to protect its private networks and devices from outside attacks. “A device will be set up under the watch of the joint CP or special CP-rank officer… To generate any query regarding a suspect, investigators will have to take permission of the device’s custodian,” the officer added.
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