Guidelines to tackle cyber crime

Police have drafted a set of guidelines for investigating officers in view of the many new laws gazetted on cyber crime, said CID director Datuk Musa Hassan. He said the guidelines would streamline investigations by the commercial crime division to tackle such crimes. He added that commercial crimes were committed mainly by syndicates now, unlike in the past, where they involved individuals. Musa said that among the rampant cyber crimes committed were the misuse of computers and hacking into someone else’s computer system.

“In the past, we were conducting investigations by relying only on the experience of our senior officers from the division. High quality investigations will help increase and enhance the credibility of the police in general,” he told reporters here after opening a workshop for commercial crime investigating officers yesterday.

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