Director general of police, Deo Raj Nagar, stressed the need of upgrading knowledge of law enforcing agencies personnel about cyber crimes and claimed that it will be going to be one of biggest challenge for them in the future.
Inaugurating two day workshop on cyber crime here on Friday morning, Nagar cited example from the recent Mcafee reports which claims that India is the 5th largest country who is victim of cyber crimes. He claimed that cyber cells in lucknow and Agra are active to check on- line crimes but stressed need of more cyber cells across districts. He also emphasized on the capacity building exercise being carried out by the cyber crime cell lucknow where officer are continiously trained on cybercrime aspects.
He claimed that conducting regular workshops is very important to build the capacity in the police force. Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director General CERT-In, apprised the officers about recent incidents of cyber crime frauds prevalent in the country and suggested that the police officers require a good amount of technical skills in cyber forensics to investigate such offenses and launch prosecution under the ITAA2008. Training police officers in cyber forensics are thus critical in combating cyber crimes and Government of India is sensitive and committed on building the capacity of our law Enforcement Agencies (lEAs), he said .
Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO, DSCI while giving the welcome address on the workshop shared information on how internet is becoming a social force today, with 130 million user, more than 950 Million mobile users multiple e- commerce, e-governance application and usage of social media is making it very attractive for conducting cyber criminals to launch attacks including, identity theft, financial frauds and espionage. He shared the role of DSCI, which has so far trained police officers through a standardized training material in its cyber labs in different cities for the past 5 years. DSCI has also developed & published a ‘Cyber Crime Investigation Manual’ to help and guide the police officers in cyber crime investigations using cyber forensic tools and standard operating procedures.
Around 150 Police officers from across the states attended the workshop on the emerging trends in cyber crimes and the difficulties that they are facing in the investigation. They were updated on different types of economic offenses such as online frauds, ATM frauds, credit card frauds were discussed and they were appraised on the investigation techniques for combating such cyber crimes. They also shared information on the recent frauds like lottery frauds and how email is used to carry fraudulent activities in the cyber world. The experts provided tips to police officers on how to analyze emails for investigating cyber crimes. The two-day workshop was organised by Data Security Council of India (DSCI), a NASSCOM initiative, in association with Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT), and State Police.