Four new police stations, 186 cops to fight Mumbai's cybercrime
To fight Mumbai's rapidly increasing cyber crime cases, four dedicated police stations, one for each zone: Central, South, Eastern, Western and North, will be opened soon, Mumbai police ACP announced yesterday. He added that 186 new posts in the rank of assistant police inspectors have also been sanctioned by the government. Mumbai police already has a cyber crime police station in BKC since 2011.
Mumbai police had also started cyber cells in all its 93 police stations in December last year, but detection rate remained low. Out of 1,361 cases registered last year, only 197 were detected; so "it was important to increase the capacity and capability," said SIG Brijesh Singh. BKC(W), Ghatkopar(E), Worli(C), Kandivali(N), and South-Mumbai police headquarters at CSMT are tentative locations for the police stations.
"Four new police stations for Mumbai have been sanctioned to ensure speedy investigations and detection of cybercrimes. The state has started 43 new police stations, each one in every district and also started 51 cyber labs," said Balsing Rajput, superintendent of police, state cyber.
ACP said that government resolution on the same is expected in a week. Senior cops said that cybercrime cases upto Rs. 90,000 will be dealt by the cybercells, but any fraud hitting lakhs will be dealt by the police stations. The new recruits will be trained at the BKC HQ and will report to DCP(cyber) Akhbar Pathan.
NCRB data released in November last year showed that Mumbai has the highest number of cybercrime cases in India, with 4,172 such cases reported for 2016, much more than Bengaluru which recorded 762 cases and Jaipur, 532 cases.
