Bhubaneswar: Odisha police has decided to set up a Regional Cyber Crime Coordination Centre to deal with emerging cyber crime threats, informed Additional Director General of police (Crime Branch), Santosh Kumar Upadhyay said that the centre will function from the building of newly constructed Cybercrime police station in the state capital.
“ The centre will promote interstate collaboration for handling of multi-jurisdictional cyber crime cases and take up cyber crime awareness initiative for people to help them get protected from cyber crime,” said Upadhyay.
Upadhyay also said that a Cyber Petition Cell will also work to block and remove objectionable contents from social media and other pornographic sites. “ We will also expedite the process of imparting training to police personnel to deal with cyber crime cases. So far 340 police personnel have undergone the first phase of training,” he added.
Upadhyay also urged the victims to lodge complaint of cyber crimes through the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal ie-www.cybercrime.gov.in. Odisha police so far this year has received as many as 216 complaints through the portal.
Prasanta Patnaik