Three-day cybercrime workshop to enhance investigative skills of police officers

A three-day intensive cybercrime probe workshop, designed to heighten the investigative capabilities of Kozhikode City constabulary officers nether the guidance of a squad of cyber experts, volition reason connected Friday (June 5, 2026). The programme, according to the coordinators, is aimed astatine gathering a much skilled, technology-driven policing model to respond to the increasing complexity of cyber fraud.

The inaugural nether the nonstop supervision of District Police Chief (Kozhikode City) Merin Joseph and the Cyber Operations Division, reflects a focussed organization propulsion to alteration cyber transgression probe from regular procedural enactment into a much specialised, evidence-driven probe.

Cyber compartment officers said the halfway nonsubjective of the programme, which commenced connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026), is to span accomplishment gaps successful handling integer grounds and to amended the speed, accuracy, and ineligible robustness of transgression investigation. The grooming is expected to straight amended the prime of lawsuit detection and probe outcomes successful cyber-related offences crossed the city.

The sessions were designed to supply hands-on vulnerability to cybercrime probe tools and portals, enabling officers to independently grip investigations involving mobile numbers, websites and societal media platforms. Practical grooming connected utilizing instrumentality enforcement petition systems of large work providers specified arsenic Google, Meta, WhatsApp, Microsoft and Telegram was besides included to equip officers to efficaciously way integer footprints successful fiscal fraud and organised cybercrime cases.

“The grooming volition fortify officers’ knowing of ineligible and method frameworks, including cardinal provisions of the Information Technology Act and the caller amendments to cyber laws,” said a elder constabulary official. According to him, peculiar accent has been fixed to ensuring that integer grounds collected during investigations meets ineligible standards for admissibility successful court.

K. Beeraj, adjunct sub-inspector and 1 of the cardinal trainers, said precocious method components specified arsenic APK record investigation and cryptocurrency investigations were besides portion of the grooming module, fixed the changing quality of cybercrime, successful which integer assets and mobile-based malware play a increasing role. Unlike accepted grooming programmes, the store adopted a practice-oriented attack to amended field-level decision-making and alteration officers to construe method learning straight into investigative action, helium added.