NATGRID urges states to use database to curb crime

NATGRID - NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE GRID

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

The NATGRID, which shares real-time information for intelligence services and investigations with law-enforcement agencies, has asked all state police forces to enhance their engagements with it and proactively use its database for crime control and checking criminal activities.

The NATGRID, which comes under the direct control of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), shares with 11 central agencies and all state police forces real-time information from its database on terror activities, organised criminal gangs, financial transactions, immigration, circulation of counterfeit currency and narcotics, besides other inputs.

In a letter to the police chiefs of all states, Piyush Goyal, Chief Executive Officer of the NATGRID, has requested them to enhance the usage in their respective forces to increase the number of active users and encourage them to effectively utilise the NATGRID solution.