Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Ludhiana January 19 Cyber crime cases will now be investigated on a fast track mode in the city. For this purpose the Ludhiana Commissionerate Police will acquire advanced technical tools and the cops posted in the cyber cell will be imparted special training on a priority basis. Sharing the new focus area with The Tribune here today the Commissioner of Police (CP) Rakesh Agrawal said the decision was taken keeping in view the increase in the cyber crime cases recorded in the area during the recent past. OTHER PRIORITY AREAS Crime against women Drugs liquor smuggling gambling On an average a cyber crime case was reported in the Ludhiana Commissionerate daily. Official figures revealed that as many as 3280 complaints pertaining to cyber crime were reported here during the past year of which 1540 complaints were disposed of with mutual agreement between the parties while 30 FIRs were registered. In this way a sum of Rs11 lakh duped from gullible complainants was recovered by contacting the bank branches concerned on time. Besides an inter-state gang of cyber criminals was busted here last month leading to the recovery of Rs5.45 lakh 11 mobile phones eight laptops a printer a scanner three credit cards 17 SIM cards six memory cards 45 PAN cards and 11 ATM cards. “This year we will provide timely and useful assistance to residents through new advanced technical tools and specially trained cyber cell staff” said the Ludhiana police chief. He said a sustained campaign would also be launched soon to create awareness among the public at large about the latest modus operandi used by the cyber criminals and the preventive measures that could be taken to avert the losses. “This will be done through various social media platforms and holding of webinars and seminars” Agrawal added. Presently the cyber crime cell of the Ludhiana Commissionerate Police was manned by three PPS officers – Simratpal Dhindsa DCP Rupinder Kaur ADCP and Vaibhav Sehgal ACP while the CP himself monitors its functioning on a daily basis.

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