India is gearing up to fight cyber crime.
Cyber crime is no longer an alien term for anyone today. We have been hearing about it, reading about it and talking about it, quoting examples of some victims or fraudsters. With advancements in technology, criminals and their ways of commiting crimes are also getting advanced. To tackle this menace, we need some strong cyber crime prevention measures, may be in the form of cyber cells or cyber activity monitoring services. In India, we have very few cyber cells that can be easily counted on fingers. Of course this is not enough to address the enormous issue of cyber crime.
Recently, Mohali police took a lead in getting the state’s first cyber crime police station-cum-forensic science laboratory. The Rs 8-crore state-of-the-art project will end the Punjab Police’s dependency on forensic science laboratories in other states for various tests.
The building — which will house a cyber crime police station and laboratories in Physics, Texilogy, lie-detection, Biology, Chemistry and Ballistic, as part of forensic science — will come up within two years. The Punjab Police Housing Corporation (PPHC) is the executing agency of the project. Also, a training institute, the Punjab Police Training Institute for private security guards at Jahan Khelan is expected to complete by June 2009. The institute, which is worth Rs 10 crore, will provide training to 4,000 security guards every year and with the implementation of the Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005.
This project is a step forward for the Punjab Police towards becoming cyber-savvy and a hi-tech police force with effective investigation of crimes through advanced modes. Such steps are what is needed to ensure that the technology does not harm people. Such steps indicate that India is getting ready to tackle hi-tech crime.
