Police Cybercrime Unit now in all regions
This move forms part of its transformation agenda geared towards a comprehensive reorganization of the unit at the CID Headquarters.
The Ghana Police Service has decentralized its Cybercrime Unit to all the 25 Police Regional commands across the country to bring its services closer to the public.
This move forms part of its transformation agenda geared towards a comprehensive reorganization of the unit at the CID Headquarters.
The reorganization has therefore positioned the Cybercrime Unit as an expert unit to support criminal investigation by delivering services such as cyber forensic analysis digital devices forensic analysis, mobile and network forensic analysis, and digital content forensic analysis instead of its initial focus on general criminal investigations such as building case dockets and direct handling of suspects.
As part of the first phase, the service has also undertaken specialized training of 151 personnel and deployed them to the 25 Police Regions across the country to complement criminal investigations within the regions.
The training saw personnel being taken through a wide range of critical areas including but not limited to Digital Wallet (mobile money) Fraud, Social Engineering, Insider Threats, and Online Scam. Others were Bank Card Fraud, File System Forensics, and Artifact Analysis as well as Network and Memory Forensics.
The decentralization, according to the Ghana Police Service, is in line with its broader goals of modernizing the service to ensure that it remains at the forefront of tackling emerging threats in the digital age.
