With the inauguration of the centre, the district police will now have access to modern techniques to help them speed up investigations. As of now, advanced forensics facilities are available only with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
According to the DGP, now with the forensic lab along with a big team, the city police will easily have access to modern techniques to help them speed up investigations, cyber frauds and hate-mongers on social networking sites will now be nabbed easily. Also, the Cyber Crime Investigation Centre will detect such internet fraud cases and hacking on social media. With four cubicles devoted to email tracking, data acquisition and recovery, social media investigation and mobile phone surveillance, the Centre for Cyber Crime Investigation (CCCI) is one of its kinds.
Ahmad said cyber frauds and hate-mongers on social media will now be nabbed. “This lab will assure that people who are misusing social media and committing cyber frauds and hackings will be brought to justice. At present, police departments from a number of districts in Western UP have to send their investigation data to forensic laboratories in Agra, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Lucknow, delaying their investigations,” said Ahmad.
According to district police officials, the laboratory will house at least 20 workstations that will be equipped with state-of-the-art hard disk and software analysis facility along with mobile forensics. “This laboratory will be a one-of-its-kind cyber lab in the state. It will have facilities for hard disk imaging and copying. Under this, we can even recover deleted data. It can also analyse data from mobile phones. As far as we know, it can analyse data from most known mobile phones,” said Kiran Sivakumar, senior superintendent of police (SSP), Gautam Buddh Nagar.
“All these equipment will aid us in carrying out better and advanced scientific investigations with more precision. Analysis of mobile phones and computers has become an indispensable part of present day investigations,” the SSP added.
The structure of Cyber Crime Investigation Centre has been constructed by the Noida Authority.
Funds for the entire project was around Rs 1.25 crore, which has been raised through Public Private Partnership model, along with the help of Paytm, Nasscom, Credai and various city MNCs which supported us for it.