With many Nagas falling prey to unreported cyber related crimes, making the state police difficult to cope up with such hi-tech crimes, state home minister Kaito G. Aye said that the government mulls to open cyber crime police station (CCPS) or cyber crime cell (CCC) soon.
Talking to Nagaland Post, Kaito said CCPS/CCC should be taken over by efficient police officers, well versed with modern technology. For instance, on an average every individual gets at least one mobile or email notification stating that the user has won many hundreds of thousands of dollars in an online lottery. But in almost all such cases, the ‘winner’ usually ends up a ‘victim’ of cyber-crime.
And with increasing use of technology and mobile for financial transactions, the numbers are only expected to increase.
IGP (Crime), G. Viccashe Sumi said home minister and DGP held detailed discussions on this issue, for which the state government was considering setting up of separate and independent cyber cells, full-fledged police stations.
Though there was an urgent need to open such cells, Viccashe however lamented that due to shortage of “technically qualified manpower” in the department, the full fledged cyber police station could not be materialized at the moment.
He said the state needed qualified officers in the rank of DSP to handle such areas. Once the state government gives a green signal, the CCPS would be established. In this regard, a meeting would be convened soon with the union home ministry.
Sources said CCPS initially would be setup in Kohima, Mokokchung and Dimapur followed by other districts. The proposal for setting up a CCPS in Dimapur was also sent to the state government after discussion with the DGP, Viccashe said.
India has 42 million cyber crime victims: Norton
According to research and advisory firm Gartner, Worldwide mobile payment transactions is said to reach $235.4 billon in 2013 and nearly 245 million people using such services.
With increasing smartphone sales and usage in India, the number of people falling victim to such crimes is also on the rise.
According to anti virus maker Norton, the number of cyber crime victims in India (2012) was 42 million people against the global (24 countries) average of 556 million.
Norton states that that the average direct cost per cyber-crime stood at an average of Rs 10,585 in 2012. According to National Crime Records Bureau, 2,876 cyber cases were registered under IT Act in 2012 as against 1,791 cases (2011) posting a 60.6% increase yoy.
IT solutions company Unisys says mobile frauds are an area of concern for companies as well as 20-30% of financial transactions are done via mobile devices and this is expected and this is expected to grow to 50% by 2015.
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