India's STRATEGY to destroy CRIMINALS

JUSTICE FROM  CRIME 

Back-Story of initiating Concerns

24 April 20211, in Seoni, district of Madhya Pradesh state, police finds a dead body. To identify that dead body, police faces a lot of problem. Searched a lot but didn't find a clue. With the help of fingerprints, it turns out that this death is of Iswar Singh, who was caught in a theft case in 2010.

Non-guarantee safety from police?

Well, just have a look at this, This is the condition of some of the police stations of our country. and this thing puts a big question will the information needed by the police be safe or not in this condition? Can the crime against you be stopped by accessing the data of fingerprints or criminal files? Will you get justice or not?

People know a lot of work, but for the first time in India in 1986, on the recommendation of the National Police Commission, India's Central Fingerprint Bureau started the project to automate fingerprints for the first time. After which in 1992, AFI, Automated Fingerprint Identification digitized all the fingerprints in all the police records for the first time. And after this it got its name FACTS 1.0, Fingerprint Analysis And Criminal Tracing System. After 1992, this system was upgraded many times.

Finally in 2018, NCRB, National Crime Record Bureau said, that now the FACTS system is outdated

And now, its time to change the game. And this is where a game changer thing begins, NAFIS, National Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Hardly anyone knows that for the first time, fingerprint identification system was introduced in British rule. But at that time, fingerprint identification was used to administrative work not for catching criminals.

    Check out what's NAFIS here now! 

But how? Knowing everything about the person from just a fingerprint. Crazy, right? Our government has made it possible. And all this became possible because of NAFIS.

But why? Why is this whole system in place? What is the requirement of this system? And most importantly, how is our life going to change after this? 

So at the very first pace, Understand what is NAFIS?

Basically, NAFIS is an online web based application, which will act like a central store house, where every crime record of a criminal and every data would be stored. And police authorities can access these database files form anywhere in India.

BUT, what's new in NAFIS?

Fingerprints were used earlier too, and even all identification records of criminals like fingerprints, palm prints, and along-with that, their details like address, phone number, family everything used to get stored earlier, and that data was retrieved as and when required.

So how would NAFIS change the game?

Till now all the records and details of the crimes that used to happen were stored inside the physical records. And now there is a bit digitization but still the problem was, those criminals used to commit crimes by changing their name, identification and all other things.

   Due to which, we used to face two problems-

No. 1 - No past records.

Suppose when a criminal changes his whole identity and is caught, even after catching him, police would never come to know, that this person was already a criminal. And it will become very difficult for the police to interrogate that person because they don't have any details of that person.

   

No. 2 - lack of conclusive evidence.

There are a lot of cases where a lot of fingerprints are found but, but the police do not know with whom to match these fingerprints. Who are the suspects. If there is a suspect and fingerprint is matched, then well and good and if not so then police will stay surprised, that with whom to match these fingerprints, and in that case, the whole case remains open and shut, and nothing happens in that case.

   

AS CITIZENS, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US, TO UNDERSTAND THE CRIME DEEPLYWhy?

Because you can avoid many such crimes by reading all this.

How would police catch criminals with the help of this NAFIS system?

Now see, how this works. Suppose a crime happens. Now all his details including his name, phone no. family, his palm prints, his fingerprints, his footprints, even his blood samples and saliva samples in DNA samples, all these things would be stored in NAFIS system.

After which this system gives a 10 digit Unique Criminal Identification Number, which is called NFN, National Fingerprint Number. Starting two digits of these number would be state code, like if you call in India, have to add +91 code. Similarly, suppose the starting numbers are 2 and 4, then this means that its state code is Gujarat.

   

Similarly, if it is 03, it means the state code is Punjab. After your criminal arrest, your individual profile would be created, which will contain all your details like name, phone no., address, family connections, even DNA samples, fingerprints and all the other things. After that, your profile would be linked to NFN, National Fingerprint Number.

Now, using NFN, any police station, whether it is Delhi or Mumbai police station, they can extract all your information from central database using that NFN. And they can extract all your information using your fingerprint samples. This NFN stays with that criminal for lifetime. So if he does a crime in future, all history can be extracted from his DNA samples or fingerprint data.

What makes it Unique?

Fingerprints were used earlier too to catch the criminals. And moreover, if so, we see all details in our Aadhar card. It has our retina scans and biometric scans. So take all the data from there and give it to NCRB. The whole problem would get solved. Our government can't use the data of our Aadhar card. Because it will expose your privacy. And especially when there is a criminal activity involved. Rather on the other hand, NAFIS store your identification number when you commit a crime. And it will also stop police from using the data of common people and misusing it.

Because in this case, data will be only used to solve criminal cases. Now as citizen, how is your life is going to change because of this? Well, in these three ways.

No. 1 - Faster case solve.

Whereas earlier the evidences collected were sent to forensic labs, and it used to take a lot of time in verifying those evidences, now the same process would be done under 12 hours, from collecting evidences to verifying them, and it will be matched that with whom this evidence is being matched.

   

No. 2 - Reduction in crimes.

There are a lot of cases where police find a lot of evidence, they get a lot of fingerprints, nail scrapping, DNA samples but the problem is the police is not able to match them with suspects, reason being, they don't know who the suspects are! In a lot of cases, those who have already done the crimes, do the crime again. But now they won't be able to escape.

    Because they can check all those samples and can verify in NAFIS system that with whom, these samples are matching. And as soon as the sample match is done, all the details of that criminal can be extracted only from his DNA samples such as his fingerprints, footprints and even his saliva and hair.

No. 3 - strictness on police authorities.

No matter how right our system is but one thing is for sure that it is very slow. You go to the police station, and unless there is something serious happened with you, try to do FIR. There are very high chances that police will not entertain you!

   

But after NAFIS system, strictnesson police authorities would increase. So if a police officer doesn't take your complaint, or after taking your complaint, if they don't seriously investigate your case, then all his details will reflect in NAFIS system, and this puts an obligation on the police officer, that they investigate your case properly, and give you a better crime protection.

And this is how our governmentis implementing such systems, due to which, in coming time, India would be more safe and secure for you! And it will take our country a step ahead.