7,500 cyber crimes cases filed last year

Mumbai: The police registered more than 7,500 complaints related to cyber crime in 2017, and the detection rate has been consistently low at less than 35 per cent when compared to the past few years, said a Mumbai police source. New techniques have been introduced to tackle these problems, but no fruitful results were observed. The police is now being trained to take on new types of viruses and cyber crimes.

To tackle cyber crime, the Maharashtra police is planning to set up a cyber police station and cyber labs in all districts and implement the Cyber Security Project (CSP) in the next four years.

The cyber laboratories will be equipped with high-end hardware and software tools, in each of the districts for digital forensic analysis, the officials said. These labs will help collect evidence from mobile phones, compact discs, call data records (CDR) and social media, they added.

The police has also been given tablets that will have the latest applications and software to help detect the cyber crime.  

Apart from this, the cyber police has also come up with a help line number — 9820810007 — where the victims of cyber crimes  can call up and report the crime, informed the officials.