Nabbing criminals will be easier and faster in the years to come as the state home department has decided to digitize details such as fingerprints, iris recognition, photographs, and other personal records like DNA reports of the people taken into police custody. The database could be accessed in real time from any police station across the state.

The real time digital matching of evidence collected and the database available will definitely help us in detecting crimes faster, says a police officer. Representation pic/Getty Images