The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is an Indian government agency responsible for collecting and analyzing crime data, as defined by the

Indian Penal Code The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was the official criminal code of the Republic of India, inherited from British India after independence. It remained in force until it was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in December 2023 ...

(IPC) and Special and Local Laws (SLL). NCRB is headquartered in

New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...

and is part of the

Ministry of Home Affairs An interior ministry or ministry of the interior (also called ministry of home affairs or ministry of internal affairs) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement. In some states, the i ...

(MHA). Vivek Gogia (IPS) is the current director of the NCRB. NCRB was set up in 1986 to function as a repository of information on crime and criminals, to assist investigators in linking crime to the perpetrators. It was set up based on the recommendation of the Task force 1985 and the National Police Commission 1977, by merging the Directorate of Coordination and Police Computer (DCPC) with the Inter-State Criminals Data Branch and the Central Fingerprint Bureau of the

Central Bureau of Investigation The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the domestic crime investigating agency of India. It operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Originally set up to investigate bribery and gover ...

(CBI). The statistical branch of the

Bureau of Police Research and Development The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) was set up on the 28 August 1970 to further the objectives of the Government of India regarding the modernisation of Indian Police Service, police forces. It has since evolved into a multi ...

(BPR&D) was previously also merged with the NCRB, but was later de-merged.

National Automated Fingerprint Identification System

On August 17, 2022, in

Home Minister An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergenc ...

Amit Shah officially launched the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS). The NCRB is in charge of its development and administration. The NAFIS project is a searchable database of fingerprints linked to illegal activity and crime nationwide. It is a

24/7 service In commerce and industry, 24/7 or 24-7 service (usually pronounced "twenty-four seven") is Service (economics), service that is available at any time and usually, every day. An alternate orthography for the numerical part includes 24×7 (usuall ...

which allows law enforcement authorities to upload, trace, and retrieve data from the database in real time.

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

was the first state to use NAFIS to identify a deceased individual in April 2022. In order to create a national database of criminal fingerprints, the NCRB supplied equipment to all Districts, the Police Commissionerate, the State Fingerprint Bureaux, the Central Fingerprint Bureau, and Central Law Enforcement Agencies. NAFIS is connected with the Fingerprint Identification System of every State and

union territory Among the states and union territories of India, a Union Territory (UT) is a region that is directly governed by the Government of India, central government of India, as opposed to the states, which have their own State governments of India, s ...

. As a result of NAFIS's implementation, a searchable national repository including 1.06

crore Crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes the quantity ten million (107) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. In many international contexts, the decimal quantity is formatted as 10,000,000, but when used in the context of the India ...

criminal fingerprint records as of October 31, 2024, is now available to authorized users. A 10-digit National Fingerprint Number (NFN) is assigned by NAFIS to every individual who is arrested for a crime. Different offenses reported under various first information reports will be associated with the same NFN, and this unique ID would be used for the individual's lifetime. The first two digits of the ID will be the state code where the individual who was arrested for a crime is registered, and then a sequence number. The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems database is linked to NAFIS.

References

External links

Prison Statistics India 2015

NCRB website

Crime in India 2012 Statistics
Federal law enforcement agencies of India New Delhi {{law-enforcement-agency-stub

National Automated Fingerprint Identification System

See also

References

External links