lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal on Thursday chaired a law and order meeting to review the functioning of ‘Economic Offences Wing’ (EOW) and ‘Cyber Cell’ of the Delhi Police with focus on institutional interventions to further strengthen the economic and cyber investigation set-up.
The meeting was attended by the Chief Secretary, the Principal Secretary (Home), and the Commissioner of Police (CP), the special and joint CPs.
In the meeting, Baijal issued several directions to strengthen the set-up. He directed the Delhi Police to harness the services of technical and specialised institutions functioning in Delhi for augmenting its investigation skills, specifically in the fields of technology, intellectual property violations, taxation and accountancy.
The Forensic Science laboratories (FSls) of the Delhi Government was directed to augment their capacity to ensure timely delivery of forensic reports required by police in criminal investigations, including the cases of economic and cyber crimes.
The l-G also directed to appoint nodal officers in various departments such as municipal corporations, divisional Commissioner’s office, DDA etc for handling requests for information made by various investigating units of the Delhi Police. “The databases related to property registration, taxation and land records maintained by various agencies such as municipal corporations, sub-registrar offices etc should be interlinked to ensure better monitoring of attempted frauds and tax evasions,” the release from l-G office stated.
The Special Commissioner of Police, ‘Economic Offences Wing’ presented the salient aspects of the functioning of EOW, including nature of economic and cyber crimes, process of investigation, coordination with other stakeholders, initiatives taken to enhance the quality of investigation and outreach efforts being taken to prevent economic and cyber crimes.