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Police website big boon to public by JAYAMPATHY JAYASINGHE "The public in future will be able to liaise with islandwide police stations through the Police website when help is needed during an emergency or to make formal complaints when the E-Police masterplan is implemented," the Interior Minister John Amaratunga said at a media briefing last week. "The E-Police program will be extended gradually to cover all police stations for the public to communicate with the police from their homes. The E-Police program was based on the concept of E-Sri Lanka initiated by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to provide a better service to the public," he said. IGP, T.E. Anandarajah, said "the computerisation program will help the police to get closer to the public. The public too can now obtain information with regard to crimes and other problems by accessing the police website. The public can even send views and suggestions to the police department," he said.Senior DIG, Chandra Fernando, said the "E-Police program is aimed at making the police more friendly and bringing it closer to the public. The public can now obtain information with regard to accidents, crimes and down load several forms and other data by logging into the police web-site(WWK.ilk.Police)". The first step in the computerisation program was to set up an automated finger printing unit and a central database to assist police investigators, he said. DIG, Information Technology Division (IT), Gamini Navaratna, said the computerisation program would also help police investigate ciber related crimes. Assistance from organisations like CINTEC at the Colombo University and the CID would be sought to solve such crimes, he said. He said that 25 computer projects have been identified in the police department for implementation. The E-Police masterplan includes infrastructure development of data communications network and the expansion of the internet service. Already 57 computers have been issued to ASP, SPP. and DIG Divisions for the despatch of circulars from police headquarters through the internet.The E-Police program is spearheaded by Interior Ministry's advisor A. Somasundaram and Senior DIG Chandra Fernando to ensure efficient policing and sharing of information with police stations to combat crimes. The Police IT Division pool has trained officers to attend to computer related problems in addition to other programmes. The police database has been widened with the computerisation of data from the Police Narcotics Bureau, Crime Division, Transport Division and Financial branches. The internet service was launched at the police headquarters in 1998, and was confined to a few senior officers, but today over 125 officers are on line on the police website. (WWW.Police.ilk). |
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