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NATGRID
Why is it in news?
- The National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to access the centralised online database on FIRs and stolen vehicles.
About NATGRID
- One Point Access: First conceptualised in 2009, NATGRID seeks to become the one-stop destination for security and intelligence agencies to access database related to immigration entry and exit, banking and telephone details of a suspect on a “secured platform”.
- Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS):
(1) The MoU was signed between CCTNS and NATGRID.
(2) CCTNS is a platform that links around 14,000 police stations.
(3) All State police are mandated to file FIRs in the CCTNS.
(4) At least 10 central agencies will be able to access data on a secured platform.
- It will be an automated system and the request will land directly with the concerned
- department. No two agencies would know about the request generated by the other