Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jun 19: The city police commissionerate here has brought its file management under the e-filing system. With this, it has secured the first spot in the entire police department of the state as far as e-filing is concerned.
The police department had introduced e-filing system in July last year. Central criminal investigation department and other offices had begun to introduce e-filing system immediately. The commissionerate here implemented this system from October last year onwards. Within a few months, the commissionerate here surpassed other police offices and annexed the top slot.
Police commissioner Dr P S Harsha
As at the beginning of this month, the police commissionerate has e-filed 42,803 files and e-receipts have been prepared for 46,162 files. No other offices of police commissionerate, office of the inspector general of police or superintendent of police have achieved this feat.
The Bengaluru criminal investigation department, which began e-filing system very fast is in the second spot now with e-filing of 20,550 files and 16,656 e-receipts. Among the offices of the superintendents of police (SP), Mandya district is ahead of others where 14,311 files have been e-fled and e-receipts have been prepared for 6,364 files. Dakshina Kannada SP office with 10,713 e-filing and 6,215 e-receipts, is in the second spot.
In the police commissionerate here, except the city special branch division, all other divisions have been covered under f-filing system. The office is mostly paperless. City special branch has not been fully brought under governance to maintain confidentiality.
Towards swift response by using information technology to the fullest, police staff were sent to various places for training. In the next phase, the commissionerate plans to bring the offices of the assistant commissioners of police under e-filing.
City police commissioner Dr Harsha P S, said that the city police commissionerate is at the top spot in the entire state as far as e-filing achievement is concerned. He said that the entire process from registration to dispatch is completed in six to seven hours, and the files are being disposed the same day, which is very convenient for the general public.