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Govt merges NCRB with BPRD
August 9 , 2017
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• The three-decade old National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has been merged with another central police organization - BPRD (The Bureau of Police Research and Development) by the government recently with an aim to improve efficiency of development works related to policing.
• The BPRD Director General (DG) will be the head of the merged new entity.
• The NCRB was created in 1986 as the central police organisation to collect crime data, on various parameters, from across all the states of the country.
• It is also implementing the ambitious Crime and Criminal Tracking Network (CCTNS).
• The BPRD, created in 1970, is the national police organisation to study, research and develop on subjects and issues related to policing.
• Both the organisations function under the Union Home Ministry.
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