Police Commissionerate gears up to start centralised custody management centre in Visakhapatnam
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Visakhapatnam Police to open centralised custody management centre.
The City Police Commissionerate is gearing up to start a centralised custody management centre in Visakhapatnam shortly.
The centre will be one stop centre for all crime records, crime property and crime database, for all the 22 police stations under the commissionerate.
Giving details on the centre to The Hindu, Police Commissioner A. Ravi Shankar said that a huge hangar, measuring close to 10,000 to 15,000 sq ft, will be set up to store all crime property or evidences gathered from the crime scene, crime records and case details, crime database and other material will be stored under one roof. The centre will also have all modern equipment such as freezers to store material evidence such as blood smear and sperm swabs and Papillon finger print scanners.
The hangar will be divided police station-wise and the data and property pertaining to that police station will be stored in that sector, he said.
The need for having such a centre was needed as the police stations are being overloaded with crime property and other records.
“We need the police stations to look cleaner and the perennial problem of missing data can be sorted out. All crime property, evidence and case details will be sorted out and given a RFID tag, so that the investigating officers need not search for them. Searching for the property and case details, becomes a herculean task, whenever a new inspector or IO (investigating officer) takes charge,” he said.
The land has been identified and shortly the tenders will be floated for construction of the centre.
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