Telanagana Police (TSCOP) App bags National Award

Hyderabad, Feb 24: The mobile application of the Telangana State Police, TSCOP, which facilitates access to a wide range of information for police personnel anywhere, anytime, has been adjudged as the Best IT Project for 2017 by the National Crime Records Bureau, thus winning the NCRB's trophy for Empowering Police with Information Technology.

The NCRB has been conducting a computer awareness competition as part of the All India Police Duty Meet and in order to encourage the development of in-house police IT applications, and the NCRB running trophy for Empowering Police with Information Technology was introduced for winners of this competition.

Accordingly, seven States/Union Territories had competed for the trophy for the year 2017. Telangana’s TSCOP, enabling real-time policing, won the award, by proving itself to be above the 'Report Based on Crime Patterns' from Andhra Pradesh; CCTNS mobile app from Chandigarh; eGujCop from Gujarat; Dynamic Report generation in CCTNS from Maharashtra; mobile application for officers from Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand's online complaint registration for cybercrime.

The trophy will be presented during the closing ceremony of the All India Police Duty Meet at Chennai on February 28.