Chandigarh - A senior UT police officer on Friday stated that the country’s police force was not capable of solving hi-tech cyber crimes. “If we rate the cyber crimes in the country on a scale of 1 to 10, the Indian police forces are only capable of solving the crimes at the scale of 3, or a maximum 4,” said the Superintendent of Police (Traffic), Chandigarh, Maneesh Chaudhry while addressing a two-day workshop on cyber crimes at the Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh.
From lack of mandatory computer training during recruitment to lack of international treaties, Chaudhry cited various difficulties faced by the Indian police forces in tracking cyber crimes.
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“Today, if you want to register a case of cyber crime, the police station officials will send you to the cyber crime cell as all police stations are not equipped to handle such offences. The recruitment process should be amended to include at least some percentage of officials specially trained for cyber crime. When cyber crime also fails, we require help of the cyber forensic experts,” Chaudhry said.
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The police official also cited the process required to obtain evidence as another hindrance. Evidence related to cyber crime is gathered from Forensic Science Laboratories (FSLs). There is one FSL in every state and there are six central FSLs. “Once the information has been sought from the FSLs, it takes months for them to get back with any report as they are overworked with many cases piling up. By that time, the accused is no more under investigation; he is either on Judicial custody or bailed out,” Chaudhry said. He insisted that there should be a FSL at every police station to handle the increasing number of cyber crimes.
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