Context:
The annual “Crime in India” report by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) for the year 2023 is also yet to be released.
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB):
- Founded in 1986 to serve as a repository of crime and criminal information.
- Functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India.
- Based on the recommendations of the Tandon Committee
- Responsibilities:
- Collects and analyzes crime data.
- Acts as a repository to aid investigators in tracing crimes and criminals.
- Headquarters: Located in New Delhi.
- Key Initiatives and Projects:
- CCTNS Project (2009): Entrusted with monitoring, coordination, and implementation. Connects around 15,000 police stations and 6,000 high offices nationwide.
- National Digital Police Portal (2017): Launched to allow police officers to search for criminals or suspects on the CCTNS database. Provides citizens with services like online complaint filing.
- National Database of Sexual Offenders (NDSO): Maintains and shares the database with States/UTs regularly.
- Online Cyber-Crime Reporting Portal: Manages technical and operational functions for citizens to lodge complaints or upload evidence of crimes related to child pornography, rape/gang rape.
- CyTrain Portal: Online training platform for stakeholders in cybercrime investigations and prosecution.
- Central Finger Print Bureau: National repository of all fingerprints in India.
- Publications and Statistics:
- Crime in India Report
- Accidental Deaths & Suicides and Prison Statistics.
Source: TH
Previous Year Question
Consider the following statements:
1. The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) has a ‘Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air.
2. The UNCAC is the ever-first legally binding global anti-corruption instrument.
3. A highlight of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) is the inclusion of a specific chapter aimed at returning assets to their rightful owners from whom they had been taken illicitly.
4. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is mandated by its member states to assist in the implementation of both UNCAC AND UNTOC.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2019 Prelims]
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2, 3 and 4 only
(c) 2 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: (c)
Explanation:
The protocol against the smuggling of Migrants by land, sea and air comes under the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and not UNCAC. United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) includes “Returning Assets to their rightful owners from whom they have been taken illicitly”.