Cyber police stations being set up in all eight police zones in the state; currently, only Lucknow and Noida have such a facility
Current Affairs:-Against the background of rising instances of online money related fakes, the Uttar Pradesh Police has begun the way toward invigorating its system of digital police headquarters in the state.
As of now, digital police headquarters are working at just two places in UP – Lucknow and Noida (Gautam Budh Nagar region).
Be that as it may, taking cognisance of the developing threat of digital violations, UP Police has now proposed to set up six new digital police headquarters at Agra, Kanpur, Bareilly, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Prayagraj (Allahabad) to cover every one of the eight police zones. Lucknow and Noida fall under Lucknow and Meerut zone individually.
“The way toward setting up six new digital police headquarters is in pipeline, albeit no course of events has been fixed in such manner,” UP extra director of police (ASP), specialized administrations, Rahul Srivastava, revealed to Business Standard in Lucknow today. He is likewise the online networking head of UP Police, the nation’s biggest single order police power.
The digital police headquarters test instances of budgetary cheats of Rs 25 lakh or more, while online violations including lower wholes are taken up by digital cell of the particular area.
While India has risen as the third biggest client of the web on the planet, after US and China, it has likewise positioned among top 5 nations tormented with various types of digital wrongdoing. As indicated by reports, in excess of 12,000 instances of digital wrongdoings were accounted for in India during 2016, up 33 percent more than 2014.
A year ago, UP Director General of Police (DGP) O P Singh had likewise seen that expansion of web had enlarged the extent of digital wrongdoings. In his note to area police boss, Singh had called for propelling a broad drive to make mindfulness among individuals in regards to such violations, including fakes, ATM/bank cheating, data fraud, and digital fear mongering.
UP Police outfits conventional and internet based life to make mindfulness and sorts out workshops over dangers of cybercrimes and how to verify online exchanges.
During the 2019 Lok Sabha surveys, the state police had glided a restrictive wing to check offensive substance via web-based networking media. It was commanded with examining posts over web based life stages, for example, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, to check presents having affinity on spread shared disdain or make lawfulness aggravations.
In the interim, association home service had revealed a plan ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center’ for 2018-20 to battle cybercrime in a planned way. The plan has 7 parts, including National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit, National Cybercrime Reporting Portal, Platform for Joint Cybercrime Investigation Team, National Cybercrime Forensic Laboratory Ecosystem, National Cybercrime Training Center, Cybercrime Ecosystem Management Unit, and National Cyber Research and Innovation Center.
A month ago, Union Minister of State for Home, G Kishan Reddy, had educated Rajya Sabha that the Center had found a way to spread mindfulness on digital wrongdoing, issue digital related cautions/warnings, limit building/preparing of law implementation officials/judges/investigators and improving digital legal sciences offices.
Aditi Mehta 