Astana, Kazakhstan, Oct. 21
By Daniar Mukhtarov - Trend:
Kazakhstan plans to start monitoring convicts online in 2015, the Interior Minister of Kazakhstan Kalmukhanbet Kassymov said Oct. 20.
"Unfortunately, our correctional system is still the most outdated area in terms of introduction of modern technologies and automated control systems," he said.
Kassymov said the primitive card-index of convicts' movements is still used, and the process of collecting, processing and storing the data about them has not been automated.
"That is why, this year we started the creation of a data system allowing accumulating centralized banks of data on the movement of all convicts and persons under investigation," Kassymov said at a "government hour" at the lower chamber of Kazakh parliament.
He said the introduction of a data system will allow to automate the work of 1,600 employees of special record departments, the detention facilities and the criminal-executive inspection.
"We assume to integrate the data system with all the databases of the Interior Ministry, and later with the databases of judicial and other law enforcement authorities," the minister said.
Some 615 million KZT (around $3 million on Oct. 21) was allocated by the Kazakh government for realization of the project in 2014-2015.
The minister said the necessary equipment, and software will be purchased this year as part of the project. Aside from that, he said that the next year it is planned to finalize and launch the data system.
He said this will allow carrying out an online control of convicts' transfers from one colony to another, legality of their parole or release.
"In general, the system will secure transparency and reduce corruption in making lots of decisions related to serving criminal sentences," the minister said.
Edited by S.I.