Anticipating a spurt in cybercrimes due to increase in Net banking, e-wallet and digital wallet as the country is determined to move towards “less-cash” transaction, the Odisha police conducted a specialised training course for its officers to sensitise them on cyber investigations and cyber forensic.
More than 70 police officers of different ranks drawn from across the State participated in a daylong workshop here at the State police headquarters on Saturday in which senior police officers of the Crime Branch and bank officials sensitised them about the possible cyber crimes to rear their ugly faces in cashless banking transactions.
Briefing the media, Crime Branch Special DG BK Sharma informed that a second Cyber police station of the State is likely to come up in Bhubaneswar by March next year. The State’s only Cyber police station is currently functioning from here since October 2006.
Similarly, the State would soon have a well-equipped Cyber Forensic Division to assist the investigations in cyber-related complaints. Sources said the workshop mainly focussed on how to register and investigate cyber crimes basing on provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Information Technology (IT) Act.