Rajiv Mehrishi, Union Home Secretary derived that the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Project (CCTNS) is likely to link to the passport service of Ministry of External Affairs and it will lead to the replacement of physical police verification for applications of passports. Adding on, he said that hopefully it could be turned into online verification within a year.

Mehrishi mentioned Home Minister Rajnath Singh as he launched a digital police portal under the CCTNS project which is connected to 15,398 police stations with it.

While talking about the safety of the database, Home Secretary said addressed that the possibility of hacking is always there but there will be safeguards as the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre has been appointed for the task.

Singh said the CCTNS project will help in realising the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream of 'Minimum Government Maximum Governance'.

The platform will enable the services like police verification of passport, reporting of crime, online tracking, online reporting of complaints against police officials accessing victim compensation fund and legal services.