Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System

Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System

News: Recently, the central government approved the implementation of Phase II of the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) project by the Ministry of Home Affairs.It has been approved at a total cost of Rs 3,375 crore during the period from 2022-23 to 2025-26.

What is ICJS?
• ICJS is a national platform for enabling integration of the main IT system used for delivery of Criminal Justice in the country.It seeks to integrate the five pillars of the system viz Police (through Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network Systems), e-Forensics for Forensic Labs, e-Courts for Courts, e-Prosecution for Public Prosecutors and e-Prisons for Prisons.
• The ICJS system would be made available through a dedicated and secure cloud-based infrastructure with high speed connectivity.National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will be responsible for the implementation of the project in association with National Informatics Centre (NIC).
• The project will be implemented in collaboration with the States and Union Territories.
• In Phase-I of the project, individual IT systems have been implemented and stabilised even as search of records have been enabled on these systems.
• Under Phase-II, the system is being built on the principle of ‘one data one entry’ whereby data is entered only once in one pillar and the same is then available in all other pillars without the need to re-enter the data in each pillar.