Union Home Minister to Launch BHARATPOL Portal Developed by CBI

BHARATPOL is a pioneering instrument designed by the CBI and the Union Home Minister, Minister of Cooperation, and Shri Amit Shah will formally launch the tool at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on January 7, 2025. This important step opens up a new page in improving the efficiency and productivity of Law enforcement agencies of India in dealing with transnational crimes.

The modish leadership of Mr. Shri Narendra Modi led the central government to adopt several reforms that enhance the modern and empowering system of the police force. With this BHARATPOL portal expected to be quite efficient in effectively supporting the sharing of real-time information as well as the fast and easy international police assistance.

A Unified Platform for Law Enforcement Agencies

The BHARATPOL portal designed by CBI will serve as an interface through which the Indian Law Enforcement Agencies LEAs can directly associate with their counterparts worldwide using INTERPOL. It seeks to fill new threats and rising cross-boundary crimes, such as cybercrime, financial fraud, radicalization, organized crime, narcotics and human trafficking and so on.

INTERPOL operational office in India is known as the National Central Bureau (NCB New Delhi) where CBI acts as an operational body for interconnecting Central, State/Union Territory Police Forces. The communication between the CBI, INTERPOL Liaison Officers and Unit Officers are limited to letters, emails and faxes. The BHARATPOL portal is going to replace these conventional ways with the modern intuitive process at one place.

Ensuring the efficiency of Intergovernmental Agencies and their cooperation

The INTERPOL portal will also enable the real time handling of request for internation assistance of other INTERPOL color coded notices including the Red notice. Due to these coordinated and fast-track procedures, BHARATPOL will have a centralised system that would enforce discretion of field level police officers to handle security issues with more efficiency .

This innovative platform shall a great deal enhance India’s capacity to prevent and fight transnational crimes, as it shall provide a direct and simple way for law enforcement bodies to access international assets.

Recognizing Excellence in Policing

Shri Amit Shah will also be conveying the Police Medals to 35 outstanding CBI officers and official during the event. Some of these are the President’s Police Medals for Distinguished Service and Union Home Minister’s Medals for Excellence in Investigation.

Conclusion

The establishment of the BHARATPOL portal demonstrates the central government’s moves to provide modern gadgets and technologies to law enforcement administration. As an agent of improved and closer collaboration between the national and international levels, the portal is poised to revolutionalize how India approaches the problems of transnational criminogenic factors that threaten the security of India’s citizens.