Bank, police officials meet held to help online fraud victims

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With the aim to protect public, private and cooperative sector banks and customers from online fraud and create better coordination to help a cyber-crime victim a meeting of nodal officers of various banks and police officials was organised  by DIG Bhopal on Wednesday.

DIG Bhopal Irshad Wali discussed special issues regarding cyber crimes and said that with the increase in number of cyber crimes in the past few years and there is need of prompt action from bank officials and police officials.

It was assured by the bank nodal officers that they will work with the cyber police in the prevention of cyber crime and will cooperate in the investigation by establishing proper coordination.

He elaborated on the increasing online fraud in the cyber world. Along with this discussion safety and security points were discussed and the nodal officers of banks were asked to execute these points.

In the investigation of cases CCTV footages are important and ATM installed should provide the footages so that criminals could be identified. It should be ensured that ATM should be covered in the CCTV installed and it was emphasized that CCTV should also be installed outside the ATM.

Most important point which was discussed in the meeting was the coordination between police and bank officials to provide maximum help to the victim and relief without delay.

At the meeting SP Headquarters Ramji Shrivastava, ASP Ankit Jaiswal, ASP Gopal Dhakad, CSP Neetu Singh Thakur and all investigating officers of cyber crime and nodal officers of various banks were present in the meeting.

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