Complete criminal tracking network system speedily: HM

Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday wanted speedy completion of an ambitious project to increase coordination among various state police forces to counter terror challenges.

Once the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) is complete, it will mark a quantum jump in country's ability to counter various challenges to internal security, particularly terror threats, he said.

Chidambaram was addressing the concluding session of a three-day annual conference here of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police organised by the Intelligence Bureau.

A sum of Rs 89 crore has been allotted to the states under the CCTNS for networking of all crime-related data amongst all police stations.

In his inaugural address on Monday, the Home Minister had suggested that the conference must mark the beginning of a process of reinventing the security system in the country.

"It is the neglect of tried and tested methods that has led us to a situation where we seemed unequal to challenges that face the internal security of the country," he had observed.