Recently a 3-day State Level Workshop on CIPA (Common Integrated Police Application) was organized jointly by the State Police & NIC, Orissa at the premises of NIC, Bhubaneswar. Inaugurating the Workshop on 28th of Feb 2007, the Principal Secretary, Home, Sh. Tarun Kanti Mishra, IAS, highly appreciated the initiative of NIC for the design & development of CIPA and assured all assistance for the successful roll out in the State. Sh. Amarananda Pattanaik, IPS, DG Police, during his speech, instructed all the Police Officers to involve themselves during the CIPA implementation exercise to make it more successful. Dr. Ambreesh Kumar STD, NIC gave a detailed presentation on CIPA highlighting features and deliverables and Sh. S. K. Panda, STD & SIO, Orissa, spoke on implementation issues and offered the Vote of Thanks. Other dignitaries present in the workshop include Sh. B.K.Sharma, IPS, IG (CID), Smt. B.Radhika, IPS, Director, SCRB as well as other senior officers of State Police and District Informatics Officers of identified five districts. Officers of 45 Police Stations from 5 identified districts at the first instance have attended the training programme. In order to familiarize and sensitize the senior officers regarding CIPA, Sh S K Bhol, PSA and Sh P N Pattanaik, PSA coordinated the training programme. Previously in the month of January, NIC (WBSC) and State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB), West Bengal jointly organized a one-day workshop on “CIPA & its implementation in WB” at SCRB, Kolkata. Senior Police Officials of the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police attended the workshop. Sh. O.P. Gupta, IPS, DIG, SCRB in his welcome address gave a brief account of CIPA in terms of its scope and coverage. Sh. N.K Das Sr. Technical Director spoke on e-Governance and the NeGP programme of the State Government with a special reference to the Police administration in the State. Sh. Saibal Sarkar, Technical Director gave an overview of the CIPA project.