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CCTNS Functional & Technical Specifications2.2.2 Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA)A feature common to most of the early efforts has been a predominant focus on collection ofdata as required by the monitoring agencies and on specific functions such as recordsmanagement, statistical analysis and office automation rather than on police stations, whichare the primary sources of crime- and criminals-related data generation.In order to provide an application that supports police station operations and the investigationprocess, and that is common across all states and union territories, MHA had conceptualizedthe Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) in 2004. It has been initiated as part of the―Modernization of State Police Forces (MPF)‖ scheme of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Theaim of CIPA is to bring about computerization and automation in the functioning at the policestation with a view to bringing in efficiency and transparency in various processes andfunctions at the police station level and improve service delivery to the citizens. So far about2,760 police stations, out of a total of 14,000+ police stations across the country, have beencovered under the Scheme.CIPA is a stand-alone application developed to be installed in police stations and to supportthe crime investigation and prosecution functions. CIPA is a centrally managed application:an application core centrally developed and is installed in police station. Any state-specificcustomizations are evaluated and made on a need basis.The core focus of the CIPA application is the automation of police station operations. Its corefunctionality includes the following modules: (i) Registration Module (ii) InvestigationModule (iii) Prosecution Module. There is also a Reporting module that addresses basicreporting needs.CIPA is built on client-server architecture on a NIC Linux platform using Java andPostgreSQL database.Assam Police Page 13