Shah calls for uniform anti-terrorism structure under NIA in all States

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Last Updated07/10/2023

Recently, Union Home Minister proposed to set up a “Model Anti-terrorism Structure” under the purview of National Investigation Agency (NIA),
It is to be followed by the States for better coordination in the fight against terror.

The government has prepared many database verticals in the last 5 years and both the Centre and State agencies should make multidimensional and AI-based use of the data to successfully fight against terrorism.
The database should be used by every police station and officers for investigation, prosecution, prevention and action.
Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) — CCTNS have been implemented in 99.93 per cent cases in 16,733 police stations.
Similarly, as many as 22,000 courts have been connected to e-Court and about 2 crore prisoner data is available through e-Prison, 1 crore through e-Prosecution.
The National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) has more than 90 lakh fingerprint records.
Under Integrated Monitoring of Terrorism (i-MoT), data of 22 thousand terrorist cases is available for monitoring UAPA registered cases.
Data of more than 5 lakh narco-offenders is available under NIDAN, i.e. National Integrated Database on Arrested Narco-Offenders.

ICJS is a national platform for enabling integration of the main IT system used for delivery of Criminal Justice in the country.
It seeks to integrate the five pillars of the system:
- Police (through Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network Systems)
- e-Forensics for Forensic Labs
- e-Courts for Courts
- e-Prosecution for Public Prosecutors
- e-Prisons for Prisons
The ICJS system would be made available through a dedicated and secure cloud-based infrastructure with high speed connectivity.
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will be responsible for the implementation of the project in association with National Informatics Centre (NIC).
The project will be implemented in collaboration with the States and Union Territories.