Scotland to Set Up New Cyber Crime Centre

Police Scotland has announced plans to improve its computer crime-fighting stance with the publication of a new strategy setting out how it will adapt to the changing nature of crime, recruiting cyber-trained officers and establishing a National Centre of Excellence.



National police service said the strategy, keeping people safe in the digital world, which it will formally present on Wednesday 30 September, recognises the need to provide reassurance, education and enforcement in public, private and digital spaces as the environment we live and work in evolves rapidly.


Deputy chief constable and Police Scotland lead for crime and operational support, said that the nature of crime is changing and Police Scotland needs to change with it. The online space is becoming a bigger part of the front line of policing every day.


The strategy will tackle the threat, risk and harm from a wide-range of digitally enabled crimes, going beyond cyber attacks and online fraud against organisations and individuals to matters such as online child sexual abuse and the sharing of indecent images.


According to national statistics, crime has fallen over the past 10 years, but the increase in cyber-dependent and -enabled offences has spiked. For example, the National Crime Agency has seen referrals about child sexual abuse imagery rise from just 1,591 in 2009 to 11,948 in 2018.


More cyber crimes such as online fraud or bank theft have also increased, but only 8% of such incidents are ever reported to the police and, as was previously reported by Computer Weekly, the victims of such crimes often struggle to achieve anything resembling justice.


The rapid increase in online abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people and children, either for financial gain or for sexual purposes, underlines the need for change.


Police Scotland will initially recruit 50 new officers and staff to establish the Centre of Excellence, alongside 100 officers and staff who are already working in the field, a number that is expected to rise over time.

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