In India's Silicon Valley Bengaluru, Police Station Closed As System Can't Save Over 9999 Cases

Bengaluru has a single cyber-crime station and it registers a large number of cases, but it can no longer do that. The station has shut down. Why? Because the place feared receiving its 10,000th complaint this year and the system is not equipped to register a five-digit case.?

For the first time, a police station in Karnataka has stopped receiving complaints because of this issue.?

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The last complaint received at the station located in the Bengaluru City police commissionerate campus, was on November 23. Till now 9,970 cases have been registered at the station in 2019. The station receives an average of 30 complaints every day, and feared hitting the 10,000 mark on November 24. A note that says that the station has shut down due to technical issues is pasted on the doors, and the people coming in to file complaints are being caught unaware.?

The note also mentions that complaints can be filed at any local police station or on www.cybercrime.gov.inportal.?

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A senior police officer reportedly said that the station officials are working on and investigating the complaints already registered. “Since the portal used to generate FIR doesn’t take five digit numbers, we have stopped taking complaints in the cyber-crime police station.?This also means any police station in the state can register FIR till 9999 but not beyond that. The cyber-crime police station of Karnataka is the only police station which has registered a huge number of cases,” TOI quoted DCP (crime-1) Kuldeep Kumar Jain as saying.?

The city police, however, does not seem to be in a hurry to fix this problem that might keep recurring. Irony is that, the city police recently conducted a hackathon that aimed at coming up with technical solutions to crack crime.

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The station will resume registering complaints from January 1.?

Apparently, even the other police stations were not informed of the shut down, so when the people went to file complaints there, they were directed to the cyber-crime station.?

“Police had no idea about the temporary closure of the cyber-crime station,” TOI quoted a senior officer as saying.?

Hope that the police stations figure this out and stop causing inconvenience to the public.?