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With incidents of residents from the metropolis becoming victims of accepted oregon new-age cyber frauds, the Coimbatore City Police are successful the efforts to make a web of volunteers, who volition make consciousness among the public.
City Police Commissioner N. Kannan said the program is to make a web namely ‘Kovai Cyber Warriors’, which volition person volunteers ranging from students to professionals.
According to the metropolis police, residents from Coimbatore mislaid a full of ₹87.16 crore successful assorted modes of cybercrimes successful 2025. The constabulary arrested 60 radical progressive successful these crimes and provisions of the Goondas Act were invoked against 8 of them. The cybercrime presumption had received a full of 9,960 complaints, of which 7,779 progressive fraudulent fiscal transactions.
According to Mr. Kannan, sensitising the nationalist connected caller cybercrimes and modus operandi followed by cyber fraudsters, particularly elder citizens, could forestall crimes taking spot connected the cyberspace to an extent. Volunteers moving nether ‘Kovai Cyber Warriors’ volition beryllium trained to bash these activities.
Besides educating the nationalist connected caller trends successful cybercrimes, the volunteers volition besides assistance radical successful approaching the constabulary and during investigations, said Mr. Kannan.
The cybercrime presumption successful Coimbatore metropolis had registered a full of 289 cases successful 2025.
