Kerala will launch a dashboard in the first week of November to monitor FIR registrations at every police station, allowing the Home Minister’s Office to track daily case registrations and the action taken on complaints received by the police. Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala announced the plan in the Assembly on Tuesday while replying to a query from CPI(M) MLA K N Balagopal.
The proposed Kerala FIR dashboard is intended to give the Home Minister’s Office a station-level view of how many FIRs are registered each day. The system is also expected to help monitor the response to complaints submitted to the police, although the government has not disclosed details about the dashboard’s technical design, reporting frequency or whether the public will be able to access its data.
Chennithala said the police needed to adapt to a changing digital environment. “A dashboard to monitor FIR registration at every police station is set to be launched in the first week of November. This will enable the Home Minister’s Office to find out how many FIRs are registered each day,” he said.
The announcement followed concerns raised by Balagopal over complaints involving blackmail, fake news and related practices. He asked whether the government would issue strict directions to ensure that such complaints were registered and investigated, and whether a special approach would be adopted to deal with these offences.
The minister also said the government was developing a system through which members of the public could track the action taken on their complaints. The supplied report does not specify whether this system will be integrated with the FIR dashboard or operate as a separate platform.
Chennithala said the police force was being trained to operate within a more digitally equipped system. “The police are an institution that has been functioning within certain age-old systems. We need to transform the police into a digitally equipped force suited to the new era, and training is being provided in this regard,” he said.
The government is using funds provided by the Centre for police modernisation to improve digital capabilities, the minister said. The planned spending includes training, equipment and the infrastructure required for the upgraded system. He added that many of the complaints under discussion were linked to financial issues.
The dashboard will place FIR registration and complaint follow-up within a central monitoring framework, but the government has not yet stated what performance indicators will be used, how delays will be flagged or what action will follow if a station fails to register a case or update a complaint. Those details will determine how the system operates beyond simply recording daily numbers.
The dashboard is scheduled to be launched in the first week of November. The government has not announced a specific launch date or provided further details about the public complaint-tracking system.
