A new technology is going to ease the work of Mumbai Police in solving cases of crime. From this month, police stations across Mumbai will start using Automated Multi-modal Biometric Identification System (AMBIS), a technology which can gather data from crime scenes, police stations and jails.
It is a technology which is also used internationally by Interpol and other European investigation agencies. AMBIS can store details of 20 lakh convicted criminals, under trials and suspects. The project is Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' ambitious project and is developed in France. It is adapted to meet the requirement of the State with help from IIT professors, local police and officials from CID.
The project is worth Rs. 50 crore and its main server will be situated at Mumbai Police headquarters in Crawford Market. It will be monitored by the state cyber police wing. “In other parts in the state, district police headquarters will have access point to the main sever. The main server will have capacity to store profiles of 20 lakh convicted criminals, under-trials and suspects. The system’s capacity is scalable to up to 50 lakh individuals,” assistant inspector Prasad Joshi of state cyber police told Hindustan Times.
The data at present is usually collected manually, and is stored at records of police stations and jails. But with AMBIS, all the data will be stored at one secure server. 10 central jails of Maharashtra will feed the AMBIS with the details of convicted and under trails prisoners.
Details such as arrest, bail, parole, furlough, acquittal and conviction will be stored in AMBIS. The police will be also able to use this data at a crime scene. They will be given a portable AMBIS kit which can store data of 50,000 subjects.
