new delhi the centre on friday launched a pilot project of the crime and criminal tracking network systems cctns making the online filing of firscomplaints possible in the national capital it will be operationalized across the country once all the 15000 police stations and 6000 higher offices are interlinked through an itenabled technology the system includes creation of a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of stateoftheart tracking system around investigation of crime and detection of criminals it will pave the way for sharing crimerelated information on realtime basis across all police stations and other law enforcement agencies offices in the country union home minister sushilkumar shinde launched the project at a special gathering of director generals of police and chief secretaries of states showing them how the information about a complaint filed at tughlaq road police station in the national capital got simultaneously flagged to computers at the vigyan bhawan complex after the launch union home secretary r k singh said the cctns would be a comprehensive database for crimes and criminals and it would be easier for the law enforcement agencies to track down a criminal moving from one place to another singh said it will bring more transparency in police administration as a person can lodge complaint online and get a status report of the complaint online too this will be a wide data base it will help in arresting criminals and investigating cases this will be a big milestone he said singh said it would also help senior police officers to keep a tab on peoples complaints and progress of any investigation the rs 2000crore project approved in 2009 spans across all the 35 states and union territories it will be connected to a total of more than 21000 locations now 2000 police stations and other higher offices mainly immigration check posts in the country have been connected under the system