Watch Amit Shah’s full speech: [ YouTube | English transcript, by Sarvam ]
“We must work to stop crimes before they are committed,” stated Union Home Minister Amit Shah during the 26th All India Fingerprint Conference in New Delhi on June 19.
Amit Shah wants to prevent crime before it happens, especially repeat and international criminal networks: “So, there are two ways to approach crime. Earlier, our focus was on catching the criminal. But now, merely catching him is not enough. Once caught, he must go through the judicial process and be punished—so that fear is instilled in the minds of others. And secondly, we must work to stop crimes before they are committed. Crime patterns have to be recognised. Repeat offenders and interstate, international criminal networks will have to be stopped through this.”
“We will not only use this to get criminals punished, but we will also succeed in stopping them before they commit a criminal crime,”– Amit Shah
Abhigyan app and stop-and-check fingerprint scans of civilians: The Home Minister launched the Abhigyan app at the same conference. Apart from a brief mention of the app, Amit Shah did not explain its functions. According to The Hindu’s report, the app was designed for the following functions:
“During routine vehicle checks on the streets, biometric scans of any suspicious individual can be conducted to identify persons wanted in connection with crimes. Field officers can get the criminal history of the suspect in a few seconds. This will provide protection to the police officials, as they will be alerted of the presence of a hardened criminal,” writes The Hindu, citing the demonstration at the conference.
Quick context on Hyderabad’s Operation Chabutara: Mission Chabutra is a late-night policing activity by the Hyderabad City Police aimed at preventing crime and so-called public nuisance by dispersing, sometimes lathi-charging, people found on streets or roads late at night.
“When I was going to the bus stop today, the time was around 5:30 am, they asked me to show my ID and then proceeded to write my details in a register and took my fingerprints and my photo. I feel really upset and sad… Is this something I should be worried on. I even said that I’m a student,” wrote a 21-year-old Reddit user seven years ago. This unwarranted, highly sensitive collection of personal data was carried out as part of Operation Chabutra, according to a report by The News Minute.
Read social activist SQ Masood’s article explaining the violent operations of Hyderabad police under ‘Operation Chabutra’ here: [ The Wire | The News Minute ]
Key points from Amit Shah’s speech:
Home Ministry aims for AI data training and analysis based on existing fingerprint records: “Now, with records of 1.29 crore fingerprints, approximately 9.19 lakh narco offenders, 3.65 lakh human trafficking cases, and the prison database—all combined—we have become the owners of a vast repository of data. It is now essential to introduce our entire system to this potential and transform this dormant data into actionable power. This is the responsibility of every person associated with the criminal justice system over the next five years. Until this data is analyzed and modern techniques are used through AI, through software, by analyzing it, they do not bring it into actionable use; this is a burden for us. But we, the Home Ministry, have started working on this.”
He also stated that “a team should be formed in every state to analyze the crime pattern with the help of machine learning” by transforming records into “intelligence.”
“And, our software will have to be made precise and meticulously analysis-oriented through AI learning. Only then will we be able to utilize all these systems,” he added.
Home Ministry wants to restart the Modus Operandi Bureau for preventive policing: “I started the Modus Operandi Bureau in NCRB just four years ago. I have prepared a kind of blueprint for it, but there has not been much progress yet. After today’s conference, the Modus Operandi Bureau will take up the entire process of utilizing this data, and through this, we will not only use this data to ensure that criminals are punished, but we will also succeed in stopping them before they commit a crime.”
“I feel that the NCRB Director should form a team today itself—to decide the topics for the upcoming conference. And that focus should be on the Modus Operandi Bureau, with a central emphasis on the utilization of this entire data. Internally, the direction should also be toward crime control,” he added.
India’s fingerprint system is being used at only 10% of its potential: “There are many such cases which have greatly helped in simplifying the most complex cases through NAFIS. But I still believe that the use of NAFIS is only happening at 10%”.
Fingerprint data training by collecting ‘all’ data from crime scenes: “Use of NAFIS, it is not necessary to do it just to find the criminal… A NAFIS can only be successful when you enrich the data of the NAFIS with the fingerprint obtained from every crime scene. This is a two-way system. Its use is very useful in proving criminals. But it can only be useful when data is generated. So when we do training, along with searching, we will also have to create an important pillar in training to enrich the data by uploading the collected fingerprints into the data.”
Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems is deployed 100%: “We have succeeded in reaching the reach of CCTNS in one hundred percent, meaning seventeen thousand eight hundred forty places. And thirty-seven lakh, thirty-seven crore eighty-six lakh FIR legacy data is available with us today.”
On the importance of fingerprints: “I personally believe that in the fight against crime, the biggest weapon is not strength. The biggest weapon is scientific evidence. If scientific evidence from the beginning itself is preserved, no greater weapon can be used to get the criminal punished than this. And fingerprint — this effort of ours to gather scientific evidence. In this, the fingerprint and the record of the fingerprint and the use of the record. This is the most important part.”
AI Disclosure: We used Sarvam’s Saaras AI model to translate Amit Shah’s speech,
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