Cyber Crime Is On The Increase – The Inspector-General of Police (IGP)

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris,who was represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation, DIG Hycent Dagala  in Abuja yesterday during the Interpol Cybercrime Training for Practitioner Investigators from African Countries revealed that the rate of cyber crimes in Nigeria is on the increase and that the Government needs to do something about it urgently.
He said: “Investigating offences in the cyberspace has assumed a major policing requirement in Nigeria and, I guess, other jurisdictions across Africa.

“Cybercriminals have enjoyed a long start ahead of law enforcement and inflicted serious injuries on the citizens we have sworn to protect. While we continue to grapple with traditional methods of policing, emerging trends in crime now deploy new skills and technologies. We must in turn, therefore, develop new ways and methods to adapt to current challenges.

“Capacity building is one of the methods we can use to combat cybercrime. The training will help look into new methods being invented by the perpetrators of crime generally and then try to go above them.

“We are not only limiting our capacities to training of this nature but as much as possible, we are ensuring that even the calibre of people we are recruiting these days are higher than what we were doing before and the essence of this is to get manpower that can comprehend new teachings and new technology with a view give Nigerians the best police force.”