BSS, Dhaka :
Works on setting up the country’s first-ever cybercrime training and investigation centre will be completed by March next as ninety nine percent works have already been completed.
“Both the cyber training centre and cyber investigation centre (CIC) will be in full operation from March next as around 99 percent works for installing those have already been completed,” Project Director and CID’s police super of Dhaka Metro (North) Rezaul Hawlader told BSS yesterday.
Both the centres are now being constructed at a cost of 3.5 million US dollars (around Taka 28 crore) under the project of Enhancing Cyber Investigation Capacity of Bangladesh Police aimed at producing efficient investigators to deal with cybercrimes effectively and conduct investigation following a scientific way, he also said. Works of setting up the project have started in 2012. The government has contributed around Taka 4.5 crore while KOICA gave the rest of money in the project. Under the project, a Cybercrime Investigation Centre (CIC) is now being built on the third floor of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters at Malibagh in Dhaka while the two-storey cyber training centre on the second floor of the Traffic and Driving School at Mill Barack in the old city.
Most of the machinery for the project has been purchased from Korea and the United States and some equipment from Germany.
Six officers of CID including a computer programmer equivalent to the post of additional police super, two assistant police supers, and three sub inspectors have already got a six-month training on cybercrime from a Korean university, .
The trained six CID officers along with two computer experts from Korea are now preparing a syllabus suitable for Bangladesh for the training centre. The six trained CID officers will give training to others under the supervision of the computer experts of Korea.
The cyber investigation centre has already in operation as it is now dealing with 250 cases, said CID official Rezaul. The centre has three departments-mobile forensic, computer forensic and system forensic. The mobile forensic department will retrieve and asses the data collected from the mobile phones, while computer forensic department will do the same thing with data collected from computers and laptops.
Works on setting up the country’s first-ever cybercrime training and investigation centre will be completed by March next as ninety nine percent works have already been completed.
“Both the cyber training centre and cyber investigation centre (CIC) will be in full operation from March next as around 99 percent works for installing those have already been completed,” Project Director and CID’s police super of Dhaka Metro (North) Rezaul Hawlader told BSS yesterday.
Both the centres are now being constructed at a cost of 3.5 million US dollars (around Taka 28 crore) under the project of Enhancing Cyber Investigation Capacity of Bangladesh Police aimed at producing efficient investigators to deal with cybercrimes effectively and conduct investigation following a scientific way, he also said. Works of setting up the project have started in 2012. The government has contributed around Taka 4.5 crore while KOICA gave the rest of money in the project. Under the project, a Cybercrime Investigation Centre (CIC) is now being built on the third floor of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters at Malibagh in Dhaka while the two-storey cyber training centre on the second floor of the Traffic and Driving School at Mill Barack in the old city.
Most of the machinery for the project has been purchased from Korea and the United States and some equipment from Germany.
Six officers of CID including a computer programmer equivalent to the post of additional police super, two assistant police supers, and three sub inspectors have already got a six-month training on cybercrime from a Korean university, .
The trained six CID officers along with two computer experts from Korea are now preparing a syllabus suitable for Bangladesh for the training centre. The six trained CID officers will give training to others under the supervision of the computer experts of Korea.
The cyber investigation centre has already in operation as it is now dealing with 250 cases, said CID official Rezaul. The centre has three departments-mobile forensic, computer forensic and system forensic. The mobile forensic department will retrieve and asses the data collected from the mobile phones, while computer forensic department will do the same thing with data collected from computers and laptops.
