Data Centre & Technical Branch

 

 

The major activities of Data Centre & Technical Branch are listed below

 

 

Data Centre Activities

 

  • To build up, update and maintain a secure National Database on crimes, criminals and property which will make available informed, accurate and timely information on-line to all State forces and Central agencies for the purpose of improving day-to-day functioning in terms of crime detection, crime prevention and maintenance of public order.

  • To update, maintain and build up a secure database on lost and recovered vehicles and provide updating facility to all vehicle counters in the country and border check posts.

  • It provides ‘recovered vehicles’ data for NCRB website from the National Databank of stolen/recovered automobiles.

  • To provide necessary IT hardware, software as per requirement of various divisions in NCRB and monitor their maintenance and performance

  • To study and analyse the State Police proposals on implementation of IT under modernisation scheme and send recommendations to MHA.

  • To act as a Control Room for the organisation round the clock.

  • In addition to above this branch also providing data communication facilities

 

Other Activities

 

Network Maintenance

Local Area Network (LAN) has been established in the office premises of NCRB covering four levels in East Block-VII and Training Wing at East Block-IX with 200 nodes using Fiber Optic backbone between the two blocks. Each level has a separate switch installed, which in turn interacts with the central switch for the data transfer operations.

 

A network Management server is being used to monitor the health of the network and provide shareable space for each section, which is being used by the section to provide information about their activities.

 

Website Maintenance

At present, NCRB website hosted at NIC server both in Hindi and English is providing  following information:

  • CCTNS

  • CCIS MLe

  • Photogallery

  • Annual Publication

  • Crime in India

  • Prison Statistics

  • Accidental Death & Suicide

  • Vehicle enquiry

  • Missing Persons

  • Training Activities

  • Tender Notices

  • Finger Print Certification

 

Email Services

An E-mail Server commissioned at communication branch, is currently being used to provide E-Mail accounts to local users over the network. Almost all the officials/officers and sections have been assigned a unique e-mail address enabling them to send/receive E-Mails and attachments as per their requirements. The address provided is in the format username@ncrb.nic.in.

 

Internet Browsing

The machines connected to the Local Area Network (LAN) commissioned at NCRB are being provided with facility of Internet Browsing through Proxy Server installed at communication branch. The authorized users can search for requisite information from the Internet for day-to-day use. For browsing NCRB has taken 2Mbps leased line circuit between NIC and NCRB from MTNL.

 

Homepage

Communication is like life blood in any organization. With the facilitation in IT the organization is able to host Home Page for both formal & informal communication across an organization. This Home Page acts as a platform for exchange of views and ideas and benefit from each other.

NCRB homepage provides a forum to all the members of NCRB family to stay in touch and share information of mutual interest. Efforts are made to regularly update homepage. All branches keep posting with development & important activity.

 

e-Security Solution

To secure the critical servers and database of NCRB from any kind of threat, risk and vulnerability from internal or external user, NCRB has deployed various security products like firewall, IPS, URL filtering, Anti virus etc. A list of e-security's Do’s and Don’ts have also been displayed in the various branches of NCRB to aware about the e-security to staff of NCRB. Policy for Internet, email, router etc has also been circulated to all internal staff to use the services judiciously.

 

Virus Cleaning

A dedicated server has been installed with Anti-virus Software. The server automatically downloads the latest anti-virus patches and pushes them to the client machines connected on the network on regular basis.  It scans all the connected machines once on daily basis for any virus//worm.

 

Patch Management Server

A dedicated Patch Management Server has been configured in this branch. The server automatically downloads the required patches and pushes them to the connected clients and server machines for patching them.

 

POLNET

POLNET is a satellite based communication channel, exclusively for the use of Police related Organisations. Messages/Fax and data are transmitted to & fro from State/District Police Headquarters. Extension of POLNET phones has been provided to all the Divisional heads and most of the branch heads of NCRB. They can talk to various states/districts over the POLNET. NCRB has circulated the procedures to SCRBx for data transfer and data access through POLNET. This bureau also provides the assistance, if any, required by SCRBx in data connectivity through POLNET.

 

Infrastructure

This branch is having the following state of art infrastructure to cater the needs:

  • Mail Server

  • Home Page Server

  • Patch Management Server

  • Video Conferencing Facility

  • Anti Virus Server

  • POLNET Site

  • Intrusion Prevention system

  • 8 Mbps leased line

  • VPN connectivity

 

Telephone System 

Telephone being the easiest mode of communication in any organisation, the job of providing in-house & external telephone connectivity to all members of NCRB has also been entrusted to this branch as late as 2007. All the officers of the Bureau are provided with the facility of making outgoing calls to external agencies through the dedicated EPABX system; in addition, a few officers as per their requirement have also been provided with direct lines for communication with outside agencies.