HYDERABAD: With ‘Cashless Economy’ becoming the catchword, especially with massive promotion of mobile wallets, e-wallets, online or internet banking, one cannot rule out a sudden spurt in cyber crimes. Keeping this in mind, the Rachkonda police is learnt to be leaving no stones unturned anticipating any untoward trend. Training its officers to tackle emerging forms of cyber crime has already begun.
As part of these efforts, Mahesh M Bhagwat, commissioner of police, Rachakonda on Monday announced the setting up of cyber crime police stations in each zone of the commissionerate. The number of officers required to man these police stations will also be made available, he added.
He was speaking at a half-day workshop on ‘Cashless transactions and cyber security awareness programme’ aimed to educate officers of the force. “It is difficult to tackle cyber crimes,” said Mahesh Bhagwat, adding, “With demonetisation the volume of digital transactions is likely to increase. When the transaction rate increases the number of crimes related will also increase,” he added.
“LB Nagar area reports very high number of cyber crimes. A new cyber crime police station will start functioning in the area this month,” said Bhagwat. It’s difficult for people to reach out to the police stations for reporting cyber crimes in the city.
Initiatives will be taken to create more awareness among the public by reaching out to them. “We will adopt the SHE team model of reaching out to the community for creating awareness about different types of cyber crimes,” said the commissioner. “Our goal is to empower ourselves,” he added.
“The prosecution of cases related to cyber crimes is difficult,” said Mohammad Riyazuddin, Inspector, cyber crime police station, Rachakonda. We have to prove the case and get a court order if we need to source information from forigen countries. Often the laws of the country where the crime orginated from do not help us. We have to coordinate with various departments if we need to obtain details related to the crime, all this takes time, he added.