To ensure a safe and secure cyber world, Punjab’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta on Wednesday announced a slew of measures including recruitment of around 200 cyber crime and digital forensic experts and setting-up of Cyber Crime Units in all the districts to deal with rising cybercrimes.
“Amid the COVID-19, we are living more of our lives in the cyber world and many people using online banking and students attending online classes are still not aware about the term cybercrime,” said DGP Gupta while addressing the closing ceremony of Cyber Surakhya — an online awareness campaign via webinar. A three-month-long cyber awareness campaign was the joint initiative of the Punjab Police and Cyber Peace Foundation (CPF).
While the recruitment of IT and Cyber Crime experts will be started from April 2021, the Cyber Crime Units are expected to be functional at district level in the next six to eight months, said Gupta. Notably, the Punjab Police already have a state-level Cyber Crime Cell in Mohali.