In order to take care of women and children from attacks of cyber crimes, the State Government would set up an exclusive cyber forensic laboratory. Home Secretary Asit Tripathy has held talks with officials of the Department of Home and the State police in this regard, said sources.
The Cyber Forensic laboratory and Training Centre would be set up at a cost of Rs 2.30 crore. Under the programme, an Online Cyber Crime Reporting Platform would also be created and affected women and children could report about cyber crimes in this platform.
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is funding such projects as cyber crimes against women and children are on the rise in the country. Cyber Crime Prevention for Women and Children (CCPWC) is a Centrally-sponsored scheme
Various State Governments are also taking interest to set up such labs. The MHA has recently released Rs 2.30 crore to the Odisha Government and urged it to undertake the project on a priority basis.
The MHA has asked the State Government to designate a Nodal Officer exclusively for this purpose to coordinate project implementation. An ADG-rank officer would be the Nodal Officer and there would be large-scale training of women police officers for the purpose. Police officers and judicial officers would be trained under the Cyber Crime Awareness Programme (CCAP).
A total of 2,500 women police officers, 25,000 other police officers and 13,000 judicial officers are proposed to be trained under the CCAP across all the States.
The MHA has sanctioned 28 Cyber Crime Forensic laboratories for the 28 States and Rs 70.14 crore has been released for the purpose, said sources. Another eight CCFls have also been sanctioned for the Union Territories.
The MHA would provide a Cyber Forensic Consultant to the State Governments till March 2020 for guidance and training to the police personnel.
After that, the State Government would generate resources for providing training, said the sources.
The State Government and the MHA would sign an MoU to implement the project.