Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stated that the government is continuously strengthening the network of cyber labs to curb cyber crime. He was speaking at the inauguration of a cyber lab at the D B Marg Police Station in Mumbai. The Chief Minister also virtually inaugurated cyber labs at Worli and Govandi police stations.
In addition, he inaugurated other initiatives of the Mumbai Police, which include a mobile forensic van and advanced motorcycles. These cyber labs will make use of the most advanced technology available globally. Through these labs, there will be better control over crimes such as online financial fraud and bank account hacking.
He later also virtually inaugurated various other initiatives, including the Central Region Cyber Police Station at Worli, East Cyber Police Station at Govandi, forensic vans for women victims, and interceptor and speed guns to check over-speeding of vehicles.
Now, 87 police stations in Mumbai have dedicated woman and child assistance cells which Fadnavis also inaugurated virtually. The CM, who holds charge of the state home department, praised the city police’s capabilities in tackling cyber crimes.
“The Mumbai Police started three centres for cyber security, and I will say these are centres of excellence where advanced technology has been used,” he said. “In cyber crimes, financial frauds are at the top, offences like threatening and extortion are at the second place and sexual crimes at the third spot,” Fadnavis said.
“We are number one in digital transactions in the world, due to which vulnerability has also increased,” he said.
While people got various platforms for digital transactions, this also gave cyber criminals an opportunity to attempt to breach the (financia)l gateways, but they did not succeed, he said.