Cybercrime training, investigation centres by March next year

Country's first-ever Cybercrime Training Centre and Cybercrime Investigation Centre will start operating in full swing by upcoming March as 99 percent of the work have already been completed,  Project Director and CID's Police Super of Dhaka Metro (North) Rezaul Hawlader said yesterday.

Both the centres are being constructed at a cost of US dollars 3.5 million (around Tk 28 crore) under the project of Enhancing Cyber Investigation Capacity of Bangladesh Police , he added.

The government contributed around Tk 4.5 crore while KOICA gave the rest of the money. The investigation centre has been built at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in the capital while the cyber training centre is housed in the Traffic and Driving School in Mill Barack of the old part of the city.

Most of the equipment have been purchased from Korea and the United States, and some others from Germany. Six CID officers, including a computer programmer, with posts equivalent to additional police supers, two assistant police supers, and three sub-inspectors have already been trained in a Korean university for six months.

The trained CID officers and two computer experts from Korea will train others, and now they are preparing a syllabus suitable for Bangladesh. The investigation centre has already started dealing with 250 cases, said CID official Rezaul.

The centre has three departments -- mobile forensic to retrieve and assess data collected from the mobile phones; computer forensic to assess data retrieved from computers and laptops, while system forensic to assess data collected from hardware, CCTVs (closed Circuit Camera Televisions), pen drives and other devices.