Versatile Computerised Operations for
Police Services
An integrated enterprise-wide tool for increasing the efficiency of police units in crime control, law and order, and other administrative operations, the primary purpose of vCOPS is to maintain information to monitor and enhance the performance of the department.
vCOPS computerises crime-fighting activities, administration and support services across a state in an integrated fashion, to enable senior police officers to access information easily.
Coverage
- Police station
- Assistant commissioner of police
- Deputy commissioner of police
- Central crime station
- City crime record bureau
- Joint commissioner of police
- Commissioner of police
District police units
- Police stations
- Circle office
- Sub-division police office
- District crime record bureau
- Divisional police office
State police units
- Director general of police
- Battalion
- Police training centre
vCOPS functionality
Prime functions
- Crime investigation
- Crime prevention
- Prosecution
- Law and order (bandobust)
Interface functions
- Prosecution department
- Court
- Jail
- Hospital
- Road transport authority
- Forensic science laboratory
- Fingerprint bureau
Administrative functions
- Financial accounting
- Personnel information maintenance
- Beneficiary monitoring
- Intelligence
- Payroll
- Stores management
- Budget management
- Audit
- Accommodation
- Vehicles management
- Passport and immigration processing
- Extremists information
- Disciplinary proceedings monitoring
- Custodial crimes monitoring
- Licenses monitoring
- Recruitment and training
Technical architecture, hardware and software platforms
vCOPS is based on a decentralised client-server architecture in order to facilitate independent functioning of all units. Information flows from lower units to higher units and vice-versa. Senior officers can consolidate the information at higher units from time to time, for analysis and decision-making.
Strengths
The software can be replicated across police departments of states and Union territories in India. It is possible to link the system to police systems in other countries too. Administration functions can be replicated in academies like the National Police Academy, the Central Industrial Security Force's training academy, NISA, the Fire Services Institute, the Central Reserve Police Force training colleges, Border Security Force training colleges, etc.
Its additional strengths:
- Horizontal integration with co-functionary departments
- Web access to information on
- Missing persons, vehicles, etc.
- Case status
- Department-wide critical statistics
- Missing persons, vehicles, etc.
- Multilingual support
- System-wide alerts
- Depiction of crime information on jurisdiction maps of police units
Benefits
- Single-point entry of information
- Reduced dependence on myriad papers, files and registers
- Instant access to information on crimes and criminals
- Ready access to state-wide operational and administrative information
- Virtual elimination of manual preparation of reports
- Paperless information reporting through automatic data transfer
- Performance indicators for police units and officers
- Better planning, co-ordination and prosecution monitoring
- Speedy detection of crimes with better analysis
- Improved public service through faster grievance handling
- Integration with CMC's FACTS fingerprint analysis package
- Restricted access (for authorised personnel only)
- Custodial crimes monitoring
- Licenses monitoring
- Recruitment and training
Experience
A core group is working at the CMC R&D centre, Hyderabad, enhancing the features of the product.
The core functions of vCOPS have been operational since June 2002 across 250 locations of the AP Police in cities such as Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam and in the Srikakulam district. Over 70,000 first information reports (FIRs) had been filed online till September 2003.
Indicative client list
- Andhra Pradesh Police
- Maharashtra Police
For further information please contact : info@cmcltd.com or call us on +91-22-6781 1000 / 01 / 02