Karnataka to set up coordination centre to strengthen fight against cybercrime

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The State volition soon found the Karnataka Cybercrime Coordination Centre (K4C) connected the lines of the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), an inaugural of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs aimed astatine tackling cybercrime successful a coordinated and broad manner.

Explaining the value of the initiative, Pronab Mohanty, Director General of Police, Cyber Crime Unit, said that K4C volition absorption connected addressing each cybercrime-related issues faced by citizens. The centre volition heighten coordination among assorted instrumentality enforcement agencies and stakeholders, fortify the State’s wide capableness to combat cybercrime, and amended national restitution levels.

The K4C volition relation arsenic a nodal bureau to curb cybercrime successful the State, with peculiar accent connected crimes targeting women and children. It volition facilitate casual filing of cybercrime complaints, analyse emerging cybercrime trends and patterns, and enactment arsenic an aboriginal informing strategy to alteration proactive prevention and detection.

In addition, the centre volition undertake nationalist consciousness programmes connected cyber information and volition enactment towards capableness gathering of constabulary officers, nationalist prosecutors, and judicial officers successful areas specified arsenic cyber forensics, cyber investigation. 

Published - February 07, 2026 07:46 p.m. IST

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