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The inaugural league of the SHIELD 2026 conclave connected Thursday (February 5, 2026) was marked by the motorboat of aggregate indigenous, technology-driven initiatives aimed astatine tackling the fast-evolving quality of cybercrime.
Speaking astatine the opening league held successful Hyderabad, Telangana Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao said policing had traditionally been rooted successful the carnal satellite but had present decisively shifted to the integer domain. “The frontline contiguous is virtual — a phishing attack, a suspicious link,” helium said, underlining the urgent request for robust measures to forestall online frauds and scams.
Mr. Rao noted that cybercrimes were nary longer constricted to the unaware, with adjacent tech-savvy individuals falling victim. “Greed is simply a communal quality trait. The quality of transgression whitethorn change, but the quality of our work does not. We indispensable proceed to support our citizens,” helium said. The Chief Secretary stressed the value of beardown argumentation alignment, administrative preparedness and cross-departmental coordination to code cybercrime risks that progressively interaction governance, nationalist services and captious infrastructure.
Digital initiatives
As portion of the inaugural programme, the Chief Secretary formally launched cardinal integer initiatives developed by the Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau. These see ‘1930 Saarthi’, an AI-powered multilingual dependable cause deployed for the National Cybercrime Helpline, to supply faster guidance and improved unfortunate assistance; Sentinel, a rule-based Cyber Crime Investigation Tool designed to guarantee faster and azygous investigations crossed the State; and C-Sight, an AI-enabled strategy for automated processing and absorption of integer grounds related to Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Material.
Robotic dogs, humanoid robots showcased
A large attraction astatine the conclave is the Technology Experience Zone, which showcased precocious cybersecurity and nationalist information technologies, including robotic dogs, humanoid robots, formation simulators, drone and counter-drone systems, and AI-driven information solutions, offering hands-on vulnerability to emerging tools shaping the aboriginal of policing and cyber defence.
The conclave brought unneurotic instrumentality enforcement officers from 20 States, on with elder Central and State authorities officials, manufacture leaders, academicians and cybersecurity experts.
Highlighting the Bureau’s progress, TGCSB Director Shikha Goel pointed to the enactment of the Child Protection Unit (CPU) arsenic a cardinal milestone. Before the CPU was acceptable up, the Bureau analysed 50,400 tip-offs, resulting successful conscionable 37 FIRs and 36 arrests. In the past twelvemonth alone, aft the CPU’s formation, 1,20,563 tip-offs were analysed, starring to 866 cases and 421 arrests.
Ms. Goel besides highlighted CipherSprint, a nationalist cyber innovation situation nether the SHIELD ecosystem that focuses connected deployable prototypes and proof-of-concept solutions aligned with real-world policing needs. This year, implicit 550 teams applied, with 17 finalist teams presenting their solutions astatine the conclave. The selected teams volition beryllium fixed an accidental to further make their solutions successful collaboration with TGCSB and the IIIT Hyderabad lab, supported by a assistance of ₹5 lakh.
Officials said Telangana recorded a 6% driblet successful cybercrime complaints successful 2025 compared to 2024, adjacent arsenic specified cases roseate by 24% nationally. The State besides saw a 23% simplification successful fiscal losses and a important betterment successful probe turnaround time. Collaboration with Meta, officials added, helped forestall 84 suicides successful the past mates of months, underscoring the increasing interaction of technology-led interventions successful nationalist safety.
