NEWS

The Centre approved the implementation of Phase II of the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) project by the Ministry of Home Affairs  during the period from 2022-23 to 2025-26

INTER-OPERABLE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM (ICJS) PROJECT

WHAT – National platform for enabling integration of the main IT system used for delivery of Criminal Justice in the country

AIM – integrate the five pillars of the system viz Police (through Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network Systems), e-Forensics for Forensic Labs, e-Courts for Courts, e-Prosecution for Public Prosecutors and e-Prisons for Prisons

WHAT WAS THERE IN PHASE – 1

Project individual IT systems were installed and stabilized along with the search of records being enabled on these systems

WHAT IS NEW

• System is being built on the principle of ‘one data one entry’
• Data is entered only once in one pillar and the same is then available in all other pillars without the need to re-enter the data in each pillar
• Would be made available through a dedicated and secure cloud-based infrastructure with high speed connectivity

WHO IS IMPLEMENTING

• National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)
• In collaboration with the National Informatics Centre (NIC)
• Partnership with the union territories and the states