Karnataka police, which embarked on a computerisation drive along with software major Wipro in 2006, will be completely moving to a paperless office system by the end of 2012, a senior police official said.

"As of now we have achieved around 40-45 per cent computerisation and by October 2012, we will be at 80 per cent. By end of 2012, it will be completely paperless at the supervisory level,” Mr Praveen Sood, Additional Director-General Police, Computer Wing and Commissioner for Traffic and Road Safety, Karnataka, told Business Line .

This, he said would ensure that if an FIR was filed, he and other senior officers would be able to view it instantaneously.

Karnataka is one of the four states in the country which has achieved a high degree of computerisation apart from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, but Mr Sood said that Karnataka was ahead of the other three states.

“This is because most of the other states only have implemented software for the three core areas of crime, law and order and traffic, while we have nine other modules for areas like administration, armed police, training, motor transport, and others,” he said.

In terms of hardware, Mr Sood said that there were around 900 police stations and 100 higher offices in the state, and a total of 25,000 PCs had been installed at these locations.

But this apart, he said that the biggest challenge before the police department was training and mindset.

“We have around 80,000 personnel and at least 40,000 have to be trained in basic IT, while 20,000 of these have to be trained in using Police IT,” he said.

While 13,000 officers have been trained so far, the remaining would be trained soon, he added.

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