CCTNS
The Police Layer of ICJS
The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) is the foundational police-side component of ICJS, providing the primary digitisation layer at India's police stations.
- Conceptualised in 2008 following the Mumbai terror attacks, to enable nationwide police intelligence sharing.
- Implemented by NCRB; connects over 16,276 police stations (100% deployment as of July 2021).
- Enables online FIR registration, suspect tracking, crime analytics, and citizen services such as antecedent verification.
- NCRB developed UNIFY — an AI-based facial recognition system integrated with CCTNS — to match photographs of missing persons, criminals, and unidentified bodies against the national image repository.
- CCTNS forms the "Police" node of ICJS; data from CCTNS automatically propagates to courts, prisons, and prosecution under the ICJS framework.
● Tracked since March 11, 2026 · last seen June 30, 2026 · updates as the daily brief publishes
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