Portrait Building System (PBS)

Portrait Building System (PBS) help to extract Face components like Head, Eye, Nose, Mouth, Chin etc., described by witness similar to criminal, from the digitized portraits directory and assemble these components to construct face image of accused.

By using PBS, NCRB has been assisting the Investigating Officers of States/UTs Police, CBI and other police agencies by preparing the Portraits of the accused based on the account given by the eyewitnesses.

The application is designed to run under Windows 9X/XP/NT/2K Operating System.

Salient features

1. Portrait Building System assists to assemble and edit face components.

2. Using the data of 100 faces user can reconstruct more than1000,00,00 faces.

3. It uses advance image processing techniques like enhance, stretch, morph, integrate and rotate.

4. Its supports blurring to remove sharp edges to create pencil sketch which is useful for manual editing.

5. A digital image is a matrix of Pixels which represent color or gray level. By changing the relative values of Pixels the appearance of the image can be
   changed.

6. Horizontal mirroring is supported to create left half of the face from the right half.

7. The following tools are also available with the application:

• Change Shape

• Mirroring

• Crop resize and paste

• Text tool

• Light Brush tool

• Dark Brush tool

• Tilt Image tool and

• Rotate Image tool

Status

Portrait Building System (Black & White) has been implemented in all the State Crime Bureaux and Distirct Crime Records Bureaux. Colour Portrait Building System software is under development and will be released soon.

Success Stories

1. First time the Portrait Building System was effectively used to construct portrait of the accused in the Rajiv Gandhi murder case.

2. It was also used to prepare the portrait of suspect in Bahadurgarh Child abuse case in which minor girls between 5-9 years were sexually abused and later on killed by the accused.

3. Abhishek verma could be traced after seven years of this kidnapping when his portrait was build with help of his childhood photograph.

4. Portrait building system was effectively used to construct the photographs of the accused in bomb blast cases in Mumbai and Delhi.

5. It has been successfully used in constructing the portrait of accused of Govindpuri Bus Bomb Blast Case of Delhi as a result the accused Moh. Rafiq Shah has been apprehended from Srinagar.

6. Investigating officers of Delhi police and CBI are regularly visiting NCRB for preparation of portraits of accused in important cases
   Future Road Map

Colour Portrait Building System is now at final stage of testing. The Beta version of Portrait Building System has been released at NCRB for testing. The latest version of Portrait Building System will have advance features and wide range of directory of faces.

ACTIVITIES

Motor Vehicle Verification Counter

The NCRB has opened a Motor Vehicle Verification Counter  w.e.f. 05.01.2001 at its headquarters in New Delhi, provide the following information to the general public at a nominal fee of Rs.10/-.

• Recovery status of a stolen vehicle

• To enable the potential buyer of a second hand vehicle to know whether the vehicle is not a stolen one or involved in any crime.

The results are provided instantaneously.  The above facility can also be availed by outstation applicants.

The application received by post from general public can be processed only when the following details are furnished in the application.

• To know the status of a vehicle (whether the particular vehicle has been reported to have been stolen)
  a) IPO's of Rs.10/- in favor of Director, NCRB.
  b) Registration Number, Engine Number, Chassis Number, Type, Make, Manufacturing year of the vehicle and complete address of the applicant.

• To know the Recovery Status of the Stolen Vehicle
  a) IPO's of Rs. 10/- in favor of Director, NCRB
  b) Registration Number, Engine Number, Chassis Number, Type, Make, Manufacturing year of the vehicle and complete address of the applicant.
  c) FIR No., FIR Date, Name of Police Station, District and State along with attested copy of F.I.R. report from Police Station.
   

To avoid postal delay due to wrong address a self addressed envelope may be attached along with the request. The results are intimated by ordinary post.

The Bureau may not be in a position to make correspondence with each individual in case incomplete information is received.

A similar counter facility for providing information on stolen/recovered motor vehicles has been made available at:

Web based Stolen/Recovered Vehicle Inquiry

Information on Motor Vehicles reported stolen/ recovered in last 10 years is made available on NCRB website w.e.f. 1^st January’ 2002. The database is updated regularly with the information received from the State/UTs Police.

FIRE ARMS Database and Counter

NCRB receives data pertaining to lost/recovered firearms from States/UTs regularly. A central databank is created at National Police Computer Centre of the Bureau. A system has been developed to coordinate recovered firearms with the lost ones to help restore firearms to their rightful owners. At present, 91653 records of lost/recovered firearms are available in the national databank. The database is updated on day-to-day basis.

This Bureau has already opened Firearms Counter at its headquarters in New Delhi through which one can know about the recovery status of the stolen firearms if the same is recovered in any part of the country and also to know before the purchase of firearms as to whether the same is stolen one or otherwise. 

Talash System

The NCRB has been maintaining a National level database of Missing, Kidnapped, Unidentified persons and Unidentified Dead Bodies under the Talash System. At present, we have a database of 374775 as on 12/08/2010.

The Bureau has also Co-ordination System through which co-coordinated information under the Talash System are provided under the following parameters.

·       Missing/Kidnapped      with      Unidentified Persons

·       Missing/Kidnapped      with      Unidentified Dead Bodies

Role of CR

The main function of this branch is to collect, compile and disseminate information on Missing persons, unidentified persons & dead bodies, stolen/recovered Motor vehicles & Firearms and counterfeit currency on the basis of returns from State / UT Police authorities. The Data so collected is used for coordination purposes.  The coordinated results are communicated through wireless or email to the concerned Police Stations.

Talash

The data pertaining to Talash is used to coordinate Missing, Kidnapped & Unidentified persons and Un-identified dead bodies.  In case of a coordinated result, concerned Police Stations are informed accordingly.

Counterfeit Currency

Data on counterfeit currency, Recovered & Seized in the country is collected from 19 branches of RBI and the State/UT Police authorities.  The data is used to formulate replies to various Parliament queries.

Colour Portrait Building System     

This system helps in preparing portraits of suspected criminals on the basis of information provided by eyewitnesses. The latest version of Portrait Building System  will have advance features and wide range of directory of faces which will be released shortly.

Motor Vehicle Coordination

Data on stolen and recovered motor vehicles is being used by Transport Authorities for a possible linkage before issuing NOC to a particular vehicle and to various Insurance agencies to settle claims. It is also used by the public to ascertain the status of a used vehicle, whether it is stolen or otherwise, before entering into any transaction of the vehicle and also to know about the recovery status of a stolen vehicle.

Information on Motor Vehicles reported stolen/ recovered in last 10 years is made available on NCRB website w.e.f. 1^st January’ 2002. The database is updated regularly with the information received from the State/UTs Police.

Other than this, 32 MV information counters across the country (including the one at NCRB) have been opened to provide service to the general public. Queries received from the Police/ Government Departments/ Insurance Companies are also being replied through the system.

Motor Vehicle Verification Counter

The NCRB has opened a Motor Vehicle Verification Counter  w.e.f. 05.01.2001 at its headquarters in New Delhi, provide the following information to the general public at a nominal fee of Rs.10/-. 

·                  Recovery status of a stolen vehicle

·                  To enable the potential buyer of a second hand vehicle to know whether the vehicle is not a stolen one or involved in any crime.

The results are provided instantaneously.  The above facility can also be availed by outstation applicants.

The application received by post from general public can be processed only when the following details are furnished in the application.

1) To know the status of a vehicle (whether the particular vehicle has been reported to have been stolen)

      a) IPO's of Rs.10/- in favor of Director, NCRB.

      b) Registration Number, Engine Number, Chassis Number, Type, Make, Manufacturing year of the vehicle and complete address of the applicant.

2) To know the Recovery Status of the Stolen Vehicle

     a) IPO's of Rs. 10/- in favor of Director, NCRB

     b) Registration Number, Engine Number, Chassis Number, Type, Make, Manufacturing year of the vehicle and complete address of the applicant.

     c) FIR No., FIR Date, Name of Police Station, District and State along with attested copy of F.I.R. report from Police Station.