Picture a digital file flow system with the police in which the investigation officer, armed with a mobile app, captures everything on GPS-tagged and time-stamped videos that go straight into a live server accessible to all stakeholders in the criminal justice system.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Kochi City police have successfully conducted a three-month-long pilot project of such a technically enabled system at the Kochi cyber police station. The new system was run parallel to the conventional paper-based system to avoid the ruptures of a sudden shift.
“This will be a game-changer in investigation and criminal justice system in the country. We plan to conduct a seminar in a month to create awareness about the immense possibilities of the project and bring aboard all stakeholders from judicial officers, senior police officers, prosecutors, defence lawyers, public, NGOs, and other departments. Our objective is to roll out the system across all police stations in Kochi city in the next three months by adopting it for a select bunch of cases,” said C.H. Nagaraju, District Police Chief (Kochi City).
