AGARTALA, March 3 (TIWN): Tripura’s rampant crime graph fueled by daily rapes, murders and lack of proper investigations,poor rate of convictions by State Police marked the worst era under CBI chargesheeted corrupt DGP K.Nagraj. Lack of cyber knowledge, proper training and modern equipments have kept Tripura Police much backward than developing states’ police force, but the Central Govt has sanctioned atleast Rs. 648.78 lakhs in last two financial years to modernize Tripura Police. Tripura police force is deprived of not only time to time trainings, but the poor paid police force also face hardtime in investigation due to lack of modern equipments in their hands. Agartala City's demand for CCTV cameras have remained as only ‘demands’ and the number of police force is also very less in state.

 Cyber Counter terrorism, Cyber crime deduction knowledge all have remained just as concept under Tripura Home Minister Manik Sarkar and DGP K Nagraj eventhough DGP never stops boasting about crime-reduction under his lameduck regime.

As per the state Govt data, in a project to modernize Tripura Police the Central Govt has allocated Rs. 602.00 lakhs in 2015-16 and in 2016-17 Rs. 46.78 lakhs the Central Govt sent directly to the ordinance factory board for modern arms and machineries purchasing.

However, how far development has come in Tripura Police Dept. the data of crime records depicts well. Neither the number of pending cases has been reduced, nor the investigation procedure has been fasten.

This scenario is nothing new, but in previous Financial Years the situation was same. Central Government had sanctioned Rs 45.52 crore  for financial year   2012 – 13, 2013 -14 and 31st December 2014.  

As part of modernization plan, all police  station would have CC cameras. But CCTV camera is a matter of far way, but the police stations have no proper data base set ups or computerized crime records.

Tripura DGP K Nagraj in 2016 during a press meet accepted that Tripura police to face heavy challenge due to lack of cyber-counter-crime arrangements. As the future challenges, Nagraj via a press release said, “With the technological advancement and the use of internet, social media etc. it is expected that the number of cyber crimes may increase in the coming days”.

But in reality cyber crime is such a crime against which hardly there are much FIRs lodged in state's police stations.