BENGALURU, 20 AUG

With the rising number of cybercrimes in Bengaluru and across Karnataka, a senior police official has called on the State government to establish more Cybercrime, Economic Offences, and Narcotics (CEN) police stations throughout the state.

“The staff at CEN stations is currently inadequate, and their limited technical knowledge is delaying the resolution of cybercrime cases,” the official told Salar News.

In 2020, the State Police registered 11,000 cybercrime cases, but this number nearly doubled to 22,000 by 2023.

Elsewhere in Bengaluru, there is one CEN police station in every district police headquarters. In the Capital City, police jurisdiction is divided into eight zones and 24 sub-divisions. The present seven CEN police stations in Bengaluru cover only select sub-divisions. To manage the increase in workload, each district should have at least four CEN police stations and all the 24 sub-divisions in Bengaluru City should have CEN stations, the police official said.

The official said the police department’s information technology division has to provide adequate training to the staff posted at CEN police stations and assign the staff special projects to hone and test their skills at solving cybercrimes. –Salar News