Southern States - Andhra Pradesh

E-surveillance proposed to tackle computer-related crimes

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD May 27 . The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), of the Union Home Ministry is going in for e-surveillance, for which contacts are to be maintained with the ISPs, to prevent computer- related crimes in the country.

This was stated here on Monday at a press conference by the Director-General of Police, BPR&D, L.C.Amamrnathan, during his first visit to the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents and Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Ramanthapur.

He said the BPR&D was in the process of evolving a prison Act. It was also working on a modern prison manual and on prison reforms including modernisation. "This is our task and mission for the future. I am also making an analysis whether the area of our operations could be extended''.

Mr. Amarnathan also hinted at the possibility of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory emerging as an independent entity. "We are contemplating this.''

Replying to a question, he said police stations were being set up in different parts of the country to tackle computer- related crimes. However, there should be a policy enunciating a uniform response from the police to such crime. For this, there was a need for the required infrastructure in the police stations.

``When there is a computer-related crime the victim should be able to lodge a complaint and there should be a team in the police station which could react. If the need grows there should be more such trained teams. Acquiring the required skills by such teams would take time'', Mr. Amarnathan observed.

The BPR&D, he said, would address the State Governments on the need for training police personnel in collecting and preserving valuable evidence for effectively tackling computer- related and network crimes. Such trained personnel could form quick response teams.

Replying to a question on safeguards against network crimes, Mr. Amarnathan stated that simple `do's and donts' like maintaining secretary about the password and not revealing the means of identification, such as number of a person's credit cards, would suffice. "By not accessing to unauthorised internet sites and ignoring porno sites, 90 per cent of the scope for committing computer-related crime could be killed'', he asserted.

R.K.Jain, Government Examiner of Questioned Documents, who was present, stated that Andhra Pradesh was establishing a few police stations for checking computer-related crimes.

He said the organisation was willing to train policemen from the State in the field. An offer to this effect was made to the DGP, P. Ramulu, who earlier inaugurated a four-day training course on "Computer forensics: initial response team''.

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