A two-day workshop for SOG in-charge of all districts in Garhwal range and police personnel working on computer surveillance and digital forensics concluded on Thursday in the presence of Garhwal Range deputy inspector general Amit Sinha.
Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Sinha said that computer surveillance and digital forensics will help the police clamp down on cyber crimes including uploading objectionable items through social networking websites, hacking someone’s account and others.
This will also help in bringing about accuracy in efforts aimed at preventing crimes of a serious nature in the future.
During the workshop, the participating police officers and personnel were informed about the mobile and computer related crimes, advance tools and softwares to tackle such crimes, collection of digital/electronic evidence relating to computer and mobile phone related crimes and other related aspects.
They were informed that the Digital Intelligence Software of the Special Task Force will also help greatly in controlling crimes related to ATM/credit card fraud/cyber crimes in the future.
A data based software has been used to make a database of all the vehicles in ttarakhand State which will prove useful in investigation and redressal of vehicle theft cases in the State.