In order to enhance skills of police officers and police personnel of effectively taking on cyber crime cases, now on a spiral in all the districts of the State, the State Police department is now hosting a two-day workshop on Cyber Technology and Cyber crime at police line in Dehradun from Tuesday.
The workshop is being organised under the aegis of Data Security Council of India. Around 100 Sub-Inspectors and police personnel from various districts are attending the workshop which began here on Tuesday.
State DGP BS Sidhu inaugurated the workshop in presence of Vinayak Godse, director-Data Protection, DSCI, Dr AS Kamble, Senior Director, Department of Electronics and Information Technology and other senior police officers.
The top police officer said as per statistics number of cases related to cyber crimes is more than that of other traditional offences like theft, burglary and dacoity in the police stations.
Police officers and police personnel are being given training to effectively crack cyber cases and to give prompt relief to the victims of such crimes. Sidhu further said that the objective of this training programme was to train the policemen about basic ideas about cyber crimes and its preventive mechanism. In this workshop, all the topics related to cyber crimes were covered which would help them to have wider understanding about cyber crimes and its detection and to crack them effectively, he added.
The State Police department has sufficient skilled policemen capable of effectively dealing with crimes and the department is not wanting in forensic equipments required to deal with such cases as compared to other States. He directed the policemen to concentrate themselves during the two-day training. They should clear their doubts during question answer session, he added.
IG (Training) Dr PVK Prasad said that during two days’ programme, the policemen would be trained on the methods of cracking cyber crimes, cyber related laws, collection of evidences, investigation of mobile phone related cases, cases related to internet and IT Act, among others.
Dr Kamble said the Government agencies needed to proactively safeguard digital assets, comply with corporate and regulatory policy and control the internal and external risks associated with cyber theft, cyber fraud, cyber warfare and cyber espionage.
State IG (PHQ) Amit Sinha said digital crimes and frauds were growing exponentially due to high proliferation of digital artifacts and communication technologies. Economic offenses like online frauds, AMT frauds, credit card frauds are on the rise and such workshop will enhance the skills of policemen, resulting in such cases being cracked promptly and effectively.