Amid rising cases of cybercrime in Mumbai, the city police decided to set up six state-of-the-art investigation and forensic laboratories.
This development comes in order to crackdown the cybercrime cases with the help of advanced technological tools and expertise. According to the police, the initiative is a part of Safe City – Nirbhaya Project.
According to reports, the cyber laboratories will be set up at all five region of the city — South, Central, East, West and North along with the Mumbai police headquarters’ crime branch. They will work on the lines of Forensic Science Laboratories, allowing the police to collect digital evidences, store them and use them to crack difficult cybercrime cases.
Moreover, the Mumbai Police will also establish first-of-its-kind Social Media Analytics lab and a Cyber Crime Analytics lab. In accordance with it, training will also be imparted to the police personnel through these laboratories to investigate the cases.
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The Social Media Analytical Lab will be set up to monitor the activities on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and other social media applications, helping the police keep an eye on issues being discussed among youth on the Internet and identify threats, including those on the dark web.
The lab will be set up at the special branch headquarters of the Mumbai police in South Mumbai and the police will be outsourcing the tools and technology used in the lab, an official said.
The Social Media Lab will work 24×7 and make use of modern tools to keep records of recent trends in cybercrime across the world along with the latest modus operandi being used by the cyber criminals, they added.
Even as the city has been hit by a surge in cybercrime cases, much like other parts of the world, the detection rate has been low.
Additionally, the labs will assist in collection and analysis of evidence in targeted attacks against financial systems of banks, insurance companies and stock exchanges.
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