Guwahati, April 22: Another three months and one can forget the hassles while lodging an FIR or enquiring about the progress of any particular case with any of the police stations in Assam.

Thanks to the Common Integrated Police Applications (CIPA) project�a national project which would not only connect all the police stations in the State through one computer network but also make the whole process of policing simpler and more people friendly.

Additional DGP (CID) Sharda Prasad said that 24 police stations in Kamrup (Metro), Kamrup and Morigaon districts have been installed with computers and added that another 72 police stations spread over ten districts is selected for the second phase of the project.

"The project would change the existing system in police stations.

FIRs would be written on the computers by an officer, maintenance of general diary and case diaries would be on computers and progress report of any particular case would be available over some clicks of the mouse," said the Addl.

DGP.

As per the Rs 700 crore project (total cost all including 14000 police stations in the country), one officer would take down the complaints and register the case online over the system and then it would be circulated to the concerned investigating officers and officer-in-charges.

As the data would be available over the network, anyone could monitor the developments regarding the case.

"We have selected 24 police stations in the first phase, and 72 police stations each in next three phases.

Total implementation of the project would not only help people but also bring transparency in our system as senior officers of the department could constantly monitor the progress of the cases, general diaries and case diaries of all the police stations," he said.

"Three languages�English, Assamese and Bengali�could be used in writing the case diaries and general diaries.

We have already received the required clearance for using the three languages," he added.

The Addl.

DGP also informed that training of the officers are on at the CID headquarters and about 120 officers have already taken the trainings.

Another 100 officers would be trained very soon, he said.

"One technical have been appointed at each police stations to give hands on training to the other officers," said the Addl.

DGP adding that while NIC would execute the project, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) would monitor the whole project.

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