HOME DEPARTMENT
Treasury Square, Aizawl – 796001, Mizoram
Tel: 0389-2……………., Fax: ………………..
e-Mail: ………………..,
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About the Department:
The Home Department directly handles the issue of Inner Line Permits, Protected Area Permits (PAP), licenses for fire arms and Indo-Bangladesh Passports. The Police Department, the Home Guards, the Sainik Welfare & Resettlement Department and the Jail Department come under the jurisdiction of the Home Department and these work hand in hand to ensure that the law and order situation in Mizoram remains under control. The Police department is mainly responsible for efficiently maintaining law & order by preventing crimes. The Jails Department, is responsible for the safe being and the welfare of the inmates in custody. It also plays an important role in reforming the hard-core criminals and train them so that they become economically independent. The Sainik Welfare & Resettlement Department apart from raising interest amongst the masses to join the Armed Force, promotes measures for the welfare and resettlement of ex-service and families of the serving / deceased personnel of the Armed forces. The Home Guards provide security to the VIP, Rural Banks and Godowns. It plays an important role in the relief and rescue operations in case of a disaster or a calamity.

Department’s Objectives:
The principle objective of the department, on a whole is to ensure proper law & order conditions prevail in the State. The broad objectives can be summarized as:To provide better training to the personnel and ensure proper co-ordination so as to carry out all the tasks of the department efficiently.

• Ensuring measures that provide for the welfare and re-settlement of ex-service and families of the serving / deceased personnel of the Armed forces.
• Raising interest among the youth to join the Armed Forces.
• Ensure proper Jails reforms.
• Modernization & upgradation of Police Force to meet the renewed terror threats.

Service Provided:
The services provides by the department are as follows:

Current Problems / Issues:
The biggest roadblock in the Department’s path, amongst other things is the paucity of funds and lack of trained manpower to reap the benefits of computerization in the department. In addition, the tedious, manual processing of all files adds to the delay in offering services to the citizens. The State lacks a proper communication network that would work even in case of a calamity.

IT Expectations of the Department:
The department wishes to achieve the following:

1. Networking and integrating the operations of all the offices, jails and the police stations under the department.
2. A website of the department that would provide all the information and the services of the department to the people.
3. A comprehensive database of all the information & records of the department.
4. Usage of video conferencing for speedy disposal of court cases.
5. I.T. Training for the jail inmates.
6. Computerization of the file movement & tracking system.

Current Status of IT:
The department at the present is using the CCIS (Crime & Criminal Information System) and the MVCS (Motor vehicle Counter System), developed by the NCRB, for keeping track of the crimes in the State.

Projects Planned:
The department has plans to start the usage of the “Automated finger-print Information system”. The department also has plans to have a Personnel Information Management System. In addition, a “Stores and Armament Management System” is also planned. A very important project that the department would like to implement is software for the operations of the Police Stations, which would have features like field reporting, Personnel scheduling and Human resource Development database, gang activity analysis, Warrants Tracking, Jail Activity tracking etc., similar to the eCops software used by the Andhra Pradesh Police.