Indian Cops and Technology
Posted by Vaibhav Patle on November 28, 2006
India is considered as the mecca of outsourcing. We have BPOs, KPOs, Data Warehouses and every other aspect of outsourcing in India.
However, when it comes to Cyber Crime Chase, we are far behind other countries. The main reason that India cannot enforce or interpret cybercrimes is that our cops are not familiar even with everyday technology. There is a huge gap between a guy writing software for Microsoft in urban Bangalore and a field cop.
So it’s no surprise when you hear that a police squad confiscated some monitors as evidence of cyber crime from an office and left CPU/Harddisk behind. In another instance, they seized floppies and tried to staple them together, thinking they were documents. You can read the whole store here.
The point I am trying to make is that the thieves and law breakers are getting tech savvy everyday. They are coming up with new ways to do crime everyday, thanks to Hollywood movies and serials.
Setting up Cyber Crime Investigation Cell will not help much if our cops can not even operate ATM machine. What we need is an awareness program for our law enforcers and making them to use computers/gadgets in work. I mean you have to think like thieves if you want to catch one 
