Directorate of Coordination Police Wireless (DCPW) is an agency connected with e-government in police. It is the nodal coordinating agency for Police communication both at State and National level in India. It has the responsibilities to provide inter-State communication, training of police radio personnel, providing cryptography cover in police communication networks, coordinating radio frequency and modernization of police communication and acting as a nodal agency to design and implement the National Police Communication Network.
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Indian Police E-Government System: A Study of Provincial Police
R. K. Mitra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India), M. P. Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India), and G. P. Sahu (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-282-4.ch046
Abstract
While Information Technology (IT) is being embraced by various wings of the government, the police in India have however, been slow to adopt IT. The age-old colonial image of police, lack of transparency in its operations, a general sense of ‘awe’ surrounding police, and so forth, all contributed to its remaining ‘distant’ from the main civil administration. The broad objective of this chapter is to discuss about E-Governance initiative in a Provincial Police administration in India with particular reference to local police in order to gain an insight into what it takes to deal with the most complex, socially sensitive and demanding administrative work at local level.