TN Cyber Crime Wing sets up First of its kind State Cyber Crime Investigation Centre

The Cyber Crime Wing of Tamil Nadu Police is setting up a first of its kind State Cyber Crime Investigation Centre at its headquarters.

The centre will handle organised crimes committed in the cyber space, which requires an international-level investigation; organised crimes of interstate nature, which requires regular coordination from other States, and highly specialised cases like ransomware and cryptocurrency, where it is difficult to create expertise at the station level.

Along with social media abuses, it will also handle those cases where the complainant and suspect jurisdictions cannot be defined and also cases pertaining to victims belonging to more than one jurisdiction.

The social media abuses that target important Constitutional functionaries, disturbs the integrity of the State, indulges in anti-national activities, spreads false news on sensitive issues, posts pictures and videos affecting the sovereignty and integrity of India and disturbs public order, will be handled by this centre.

Additional Director General of Police, Cyber Crime, Amresh Poojari, said, “We have conducted a screening test. The trained personnel mostly with engineering backgrounds from technical services wing and some police personnel from the local police station with good acumen for detecting cyber offences are being inducted in the centre.”

He also said the public can contact the cybercrime helpline at 1930 if they fall victim to any cyber financial fraud. In the last six months, the Cyber Crime Wing Headquarters blocked 649 offending contents on 523 websites, 22 YouTube videos, 55 Facebook pages/profiles, 17 Instagram pages and 32 mobile applications.