National Crime Records Bureau

India · Information Services

To function as a clearing house of information on crime and criminals including those operating at National and International levels so as to assists the investigators, and others in linking crimes to their perpetrators. To store, coordinate and disseminate information on inter-state and international criminals from and to respective States, national investigating agencies, courts and prosecutors in India without having to refer to the Police Station records. To collect and process crime statistics at the National level. To receive from and supply data to penal and correctional agencies for their tasks of rehabilitation of criminals, their remand, parole, premature release etc. To coordinate, guide and assist the functioning of the State Crime Records Bureaux To provide training facilities to personnel of the Crime Records bureaux, and To evaluate, develop and modernise crime Records Bureaux Executive and develop computer based systems for the Central Police Organisations - and also cater to their data processing and training needs for computerization. To function as the National storehouse of fingerprint (FP) records of convicted persons including FP records of foreign criminals. To help trace inter state criminals by fingerprint search. To advise Central and State Governments on matters related to fingerprints and footprints, and to conduct training courses for finger print experts.