‘Modi Government believes in zero tolerance against crime and terror’: Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy inaugurates 21st All India Conference of Directors, Fingerprint Bureau 2020

Union Minister of State for Home, G.Kishan Reddy digitally inaugurated the 21st All India Conference of Directors, Fingerprint Bureau 2020 and also on this occasion inaugurated the e-Cyber Lab set up by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

G. Kishan Reddy in his address said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government believes in zero tolerance in crime and terror. Under the leadership of Union Home Minister, Amit Shah our aim is to create Crime Free India, he added.

G. Kishan Reddy said that the Government does not believe in viewing a crime from the prism of caste, creed, religion or region,as crime is against humanity and peace and the government would never tolerate crimes against women and the downtrodden and will take all measures in ensuring speedy and decisive justice for all victims.

G. Kishan Reddy said that although law and order is a state subject, the Union Government has an important role in monitoring and tracking crime, in modernization of police forces, and in capacity building and in extending assistance to State governments in improving policing. He added that Union Home Minister, Amit shah has emphasised on importance of modernisation of police forces. During the financial year 2019-20, the government of India released Rs. 780 crore for the modernisation of police across India.

Emphasising on the importance of fingerprints, G. Kishan Reddy said that fingerprint is an essential tool because of its uniqueness, permanency, individuality and ease in acquisition. He added that the digitisation of records and fingerprint data is an important step forward in documenting and tracking crimes and criminals and expressed his confidence that the fully computerised National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) would soon become functional and benefit police forces.

While inaugurating the e-Cyber Lab set up by NCRB with state of the art cyber forensic tools, G. Kishan Reddy said the month of October is observed as National Cyber Security Awareness Month and e-Cyber Lab will provide virtual experience in investigation of cyber crimes.

Director NCRB, Ramphal Pawar said, NAFIS will be a game changer in partnership with NCRB. NAFIS will also provide aid to investigating officers in identifying criminals based on their fingerprints on a real time basis.

Senior officials of Union Ministry of Home Affairs were also present along with officers of all three training centres of NCRB in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh via video-conferencing.