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Expressing his opinion on the need to modernise and computerise the Police Department, the DGP said Rs 2.5 crore has been proposed for the network facility with mobile fingerprint units in 24 districts of the state. Aulakh said, “Organised Crime Information System developed by the NCRB is dedicated to 26 categories of organised crimes. The finger print analysis and Criminal Tracing System is also working successfully and has about 1,80,000 finger print records of criminals.”
He further stressed on the need of video conferencing in various jails of Punjab. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Justice Vijender Kumar Jain stated that the facility of video conferencing would save precious time of the police officers and judges.
The Chief Justice said that in normal cases when the police produce an accuse in court to seek his remand, a number of police officers have to wait outside the court for hours, which is sheer wastage of time. If there is a facility of video conferencing then the judges can easily take a look at the accused in jail itself.
Meanwhile, Justice Uma Nath Singh of the Punjab and Haryana High Court advised police officers and lower courts to judiciously use the criminal conspiracy section. “Conviction under Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code is very rare. It is an offence, which needs to be used judiciously.”
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