Cyber Networking of Police Stations

• A Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) programme had been initiated in the year 2004-05 as a component of the "Modernisation of State Police Forces (MPF)" scheme of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
  
• The aim of the CIPA was to bring about computerization and automation in the functioning at the police station. So far, 2,760 police stations, out of a total of around 14,000 police stations across the country, have been covered under the Scheme. No police station was connected on any network under any previous central scheme. Networking of Police Stations was envisaged in CIPA but before it could be implemented, the planned project CCTNS came into existence and CIPA programme was subsumed under CCTNS.