A primary-of-its type database of arrested narcotics offenders has been made operational to be used by numerous central and state prosecution businesses tasked to implement anti-drugs legal guidelines within the nation, officers stated.

The portal — NIDAAN or the National Integrated Database on Arrested Narco-offenders — has been developed by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).

It is a part of the narcotics coordination mechanism (NCORD) portal that was launched by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on July 30 in Chandigarh throughout the nationwide convention on ‘Drug trafficking and nationwide safety’.

The NIDAAN platform sources its information from the ICJS (inter-operable prison justice system) and the e-Prisons (a cloud-based utility) repository and it’s deliberate to combine it sooner or later with the crime and prison monitoring community system or CCTNS, a senior officer stated.

The ICJS, an initiative of the Supreme Court e-committee, was created to allow seamless switch of information and data amongst totally different pillars of the prison justice system, like courts, police, jails and forensic science laboratories, from one platform.

“NIDAAN is a one-stop solution for all narcotics offenders’ related data and will help investigative agencies as an effective tool to connect the dots while probing narcotics cases,” NCB Director General S N Pradhan informed PTI.

The thought to create such a portal was to reinforce the potential of all of the legislation enforcement businesses working towards drug crimes, he stated.

NIDAAN hosts information about these accused who’ve been arrested and jailed for medicine offences and those that are “directly or indirectly involved in the produce, manufacture, possession, selling, purchase, transport, warehousing, usage, consumption, inter-state import and export, import into India, export from India or transhipment of any narcotics or psychotropic substance.” According to the blueprint ready for the operation and utilization of the portal, any company can seek for the crime historical past, private particulars, fingerprints, courtroom instances and appeals made and many others. with regard to a drug offender from any a part of the nation.

The login ID and password for the portal to be used by numerous central and state anti-drugs models can both be obtained from the CCTNS administrator and people businesses who have already got login credentials on the ICJS portal can use the identical to function NIDAAN, a senior officer stated.

A definite characteristic referred to as ‘prison community’ on the portal may also be accessed by businesses, as a part of which particular hyperlinks of an accused to different crimes, linked police FIRs and those that visited them in jail may also be accessed, the officer stated.

The NIDAAN portal is a vertical envisaged below the NCORD and was mooted throughout a nationwide assembly on drug points chaired by Home Minister Shah in December final 12 months in Delhi.

Shah, throughout the assembly, had additionally spoken about numerous different plans for strengthening the coordination mechanism on narcotics points like asking all states to create a devoted anti-narcotics job pressure (ANTF) which might additionally operate because the NCORD secretariat on the state stage, the assertion stated.

The minister had additionally directed the businesses to “take some important measures such as creation of a national NCORD portal (NIDAAN being a part of it), constitution of inter-ministerial standing committees (IMCs) to devise effective policies with regard to dual use prescription drugs and precursors, raising of a national narco-canine pool and establishment of drug de-addiction centres in all prisons of 272 most drugs affected districts etc.”