The Union Government on Friday approved the implementation of the Phase-II of the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) project by the Ministry of Home Affairs at a total cost of Rs.3,375 crore during the period from 2022-23 to 2025-26.
The ICJS system would be made available through a dedicated and secure cloud-based infrastructure with high-speed connectivity. The project will be implemented as a Central Sector Scheme.
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will be responsible for the implementation of the project in association with the National Informatics Center (NIC).
The project will be implemented in collaboration with the States and Union Territories.
What is the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System?
Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) is a national platform for enabling integration of the main IT system used for delivery of Criminal Justice in the country by five pillars. These include-
- Police (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.
ICJS system was to be implemented in two phases. In Phase-I of the ICJS project, individual IT systems were implemented and stabilized. The search of records feature has also been enabled on these systems.
Under Phase-II, the system is being built on the principle of ‘one data one entry’ whereby 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.
Phase II of the ICJS project is expected to be a step towards ensuring effective and modern policing.