Lt. Governor Anil Baijal Reviews 3 Years’ Roadmap Of Delhi Police For Combating Cybercrime.
Lt. Governor, Delhi Sh. Anil Baijal in a law & order meeting reviewed the 3 years’ roadmap of Delhi Police for combating cybercrime. The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary, Delhi, Pr. Secretary (Home), GNCTD, Commissioner of Police, Delhi, Spl. CPs and Jt. CPs of Delhi Police.
Delhi Police made a detailed presentation regarding prevalent cybercrimes and the measures to check them. The presentation covered technical as well as human resources aspects to combat the cybercrime.
Hon’ble Lt. Governor was also briefed about the various issues and the multi-level structure including cyber teams/cells from Police Station and Centralized Cybercrime Units. The presentation covered various aspects like gathering of actionable intelligence, forensics, investigation and prosecution as well as awareness and training programmes.
Hon’ble Lt. Governor was apprised that Delhi Police is actively monitoring and working on cracking of different malwares like ransomware, bitcoin thefts, frauds/cheating etc. In addition to this new areas like network forensics, cloud forensics, advance mobile forensics, etc. are being taken up.
A year wise roadmap for three years was also discussed in the meeting. Hon’ble Lt. Governor stressed upon periodic assessment and review of the progress made upon them, so that the work can be accomplished in a time bound manner.
Lt. Governor also desired that effective awareness campaigns be launched as a preventive measure to educate the people about the precautions that they must take care while using their gadgets and before imparting with any personal sensitive information.
Lastly, Lt. Governor directed that Delhi Police should focus on building a skilled, capable and dedicated human resource because that would be its primary weapon in combating cybercrime. He advised Delhi Police to suitably incentivize existing personnel in this regard besides making appropriate modifications to its recruitment procedures for inducting the best talent available to help it fight cybercrime effectively.
