Haryana Police to train over 5000 policemen for speedier and apt investigations of cybercrime cases in the state

New Delhi, September 16

The Haryana Police is training over 5,000 willing policemen and officers in cybercrime investigation on the portal of National Cybercrime Training Centre (CyTrain), which has been developed by the Central government to train police personnel on aspects of cybercrime.

The move has been initiated so that the police can cope with the rising number of users of networked devices, leading to a higher number of cybercrimes. 

The CyTrain portal has been developed for capacity building of police officers and judicial officers through online courses on critical aspects of cybercrime investigation, forensics and prosecution.

ADGP (Crime) OP Singh is the state nodal officer for cybercrime in Haryana Police. 

ADGP Singh chaired a meeting of 29 cyber police station SHOs and all district nodal officers (DSPs and ASPs) for cybercrime and called upon the officials to dispose of complaints of cybercrimes more expeditiously. 

During the meeting, it was noted that reporting of complaints has increased by 136% in last few months in the state. The police received as many as 36,996 complaints of cybercrime on helpline number 1930, portal cybercrime.gov.in, 309 cyber-desks and 29 cyber police stations in the state.

As many as 20,484 of them are under process and 15,057 have been disposed of. Cyber Police station of state crime branch, Panipat and Sonipat were among top three units in disposing of maximum percentage of complaints, added officials. 

The officers investigating he cybercrime cases were advised to speed up investigation of 1,153 under-investigation cases out of 1,455 registered in the period. ADGP Singh also mentioned that 340 cases were probed and arresting 510 cyber criminals were arrested in the same period. He mentioned that Karnal, Sirsa and Bhiwani were among top three districts in concluding investigation. 

He asked officers present to make greater use of a cyber-safe portal operated by MHA and upload phone numbers found being misused for committing cyber crime so that these can be blocked and data of transactions generated by it are utilised by investigating officers for tracing the cases. 

According to the police, 8,516 cases were recorded till August this year. Gurgaon, Faridabad and Rewari were among top three districts which uploaded the maximum number of phone numbers used in committing cybercrime.

The meeting also emphasized on intensify awareness campaigns to make people aware of cyber hygiene, the necessity of not sharing identification code and sensitive information with anyone and report to 1930 immediately in case of being targeted by cyber criminals. 

The officials added that the “Cyber Raahgiri” functions organised in the state has participation of 32,000 people across the state and more such gatherings would be organised to spread cybercrime awareness.