Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services, recently developed an integrated Police Information System.
This end-to-end online application software aims to covers all the important activities relating to day-to-day functioning of police departments including the back-end administrative processes of general administration, finance and stores etc.
Processes are automated to ease the tasks of administration and record keeping, thereby, bringing in operational efficiency throughout the police department.
Currently in the pilot stage, Ranbir Singh, general manager, government and defence, Wipro Infotech, dwells on the salient features of the Police Information System.
I4S India: How does Police Information System help in combating high crime rates?
The primary challenges that law keepers of India face today while tackling crime are the huge mismatch between the enormity of the populace and the vast terrain. In addition, limitations on quality of resources, readily available classified information and synergy of action act as deterrents in tackling crimes.
The Police Information System has a web based three-tier architecture, which effectively helps the Police Department in bridging the gap by bringing “Anywhere Information Availability”. The application is endowed with features such as creating a database of past criminal history, integration of fingerprints database with search facility, history sheet, modus operandi bureau reports.
The Police Information System also comes with demographic classification of crimes and criminals, intelligence and counter intelligence gathering, which help in taking proactive measures and foreigner registration and tracking features. Information interchanges and information exchange framework within and across different jurisdictions, be it within the state boundary or across, is also a highlight of this application.
I4S India: What is the technology behind it?
The Police Information System was developed, tested and commissioned adhering to state-of-the-art technology, architecture, strict CMMi Level 5 development methodology with future scalability in mind. Specific technologies that are being used are:
– Microsoft .NET application development framework
– Microsoft SQL 2005 RDBMS
– WEB based 3-tier architecture
– Document management and integrated workflow management framework
– Role based accessibility framework with bio metric authentication
– BS 7799 security compliance framework
The application has been developed from ground up, with regular inputs from users after thorough study of as-is and to-be processes at ground level.
Subsequently, the application had gone through rigorous processes of User Acceptance Test at different police offices across different districts of Karnataka.
After completion of the above two processes, the application is fool proof from the point of view of the users. Nevertheless, the process does not end there, as future modifications will also be implemented with new version releases, which will be nothing but incorporation of new or changed user requirements.
I4S India: What is the rationale behind this product?
Since the application development was primarily driven by Ministry of Home Affairs and National Crime Records Bureau, the rationale was based on two thoughts. The first one was to create a more informed and efficient police force and the second, to make easily available all crime records and history for quick decision-taking ability and IT enablement of police force and capacity building
I4S India: In today’s world, security is a big issue. In your estimate, how big is the Indian security industry?
It is difficult to give a market estimate but in our opinion, it could be about Rs. 1500 to 2000 crore.