BHARATPOL portal was launched on 07.01.2025 by Shri Amit Shah, Union Home Minister of India. The modules seek to provide assistance to indian law enforcement agencies in seeking assistance from foreign law enforcement agencies in criminal matters relating to transnational organized crime, trafficking in narcotics, migrants and arms, organized cyber crimes, economic fraud, child pornography and terrorism etc.. Currently, BHARATPOL Portal has the following five modules:

(1) Connect Module: It connects CBI as National Central Bureau for INTERPOL in India with all law enforcement authorities in India on a single platform.

(2) Broadcast Module: Requests from foreign countries for assistance or criminal intelligence shared by foreign countries can be transmitted for action or information to Indian law enforcement agencies.

(3) INTERPOL References Module: It facilitates rapid international assistance through INTERPOL channels to Indian law enforcement agencies for Investigation abroad.

(4) INTERPOL Notices Module: It facilitates rapid, secure and structured transmission of requests for INTERPOL Notices to Indian Law Enforcement Agencies.

(5) Resources Module: It provides access to relevant documents and capacity building resources.

 

All INTERPOL Liaison Officers (ILOs) of all States/UTs and Central Law Enforcement Agencies are connected with CBI and all Unit Officers (UOs) of States/UTs Central Law Enforcement Agencies are connected with respective ILOs through connect module of BHARATPOL Portal. Presently 51 Law Enforcement Agencies (Annexure 1) and more than 500 unit offices of various law enforcement agencies are connected through this portal.

A training session was conducted at CBI Headquarters on 07.01.2025 (afternoon) for all INTERPOL Liaison Officers (ILOs) on BHARATPOL Portal vis-a-vis International Police Cooperation. For capacity of the law enforcement agencies in respect of the use of the portal, in person training courses are being scheduled in coming months. The CBI academy at Ghaziabad is also organising training programme for BHARATPOL for creating awareness of the Portal and its effective use among the law enforcement agencies.

BHARATPOL Portal has already started receiving requests from States/UTs and Central Law Enforcement Agencies for publication of INTERPOL Notices and requests for assistance in criminal matters through INTERPOL References. Since the launch of the portal on 07.01.2025, Sixteen (16) requests for publication of Interpol notices have been received from the Law Enforcement Agencies through this Portal. At the same time Eight (08) Interpol references seeking assistance from Foreign Law Enforcement Agencies have been received through this Portal. Thirty (30) international references received from foreign countries seeking assistance from Indian law enforcement agencies have been forwarded through this portal.

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ANNEXURE 1

This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Shri Nityanand Rai, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.

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