UK responds decisively to cybercrime

[DodgyAgent]

Spot the oxymoron

[BrilloPad]

This is part of a much larger budget of £650m earmarked for the fight against cyber-threats more generally and protecting the UK's national infrastructure from attacks, the majority of which will go to the intelligence agencies, principally GCHQ.

Spot the oxymoron

[Freamon]

Judging by the clowns talking on the leaked conference call recording the other day, it doesn't look like the cybercrime fraternity have much to worry about. Law enforcement are too busy trying to bang up 13 year olds who are only doing it for teh lulz, whilst ignoring the Russian immigrants who are actually doing it for teh moneys.

[vetran]

bloomin ridiculous, three weeks on a cyber crime force course run by the one person in the force who can send an email and unleashed on the world?

Would be better setting up a central email and 2 administrators then farming the investigation out, I'm sure Reading & Manchester UNI's plus a few of the Internet giants would like to help create tools to fight cybercrime.

There are times when its best to admit you don't know what you are doing and get help.

[AtW]

The UK is to establish three regional policing e-crime hubs as part of efforts to boost the capability of British police to tackle the growing problem of cybercrime.

The new hubs, in Yorkshire and the Humber, the Northwest and in East Midlands, will each get their own three-officer team. Each will work alongside the Metropolitan Police Central e-crime Unit.

The regional roll-out is part of UK government plans to spend £30m over four years to improve the country's ability to investigate and thwart cyber-crime. This is part of a much larger budget of £650m earmarked for the fight against cyber-threats more generally and protecting the UK's national infrastructure from attacks, the majority of which will go to the intelligence agencies, principally GCHQ.

Each of the three regional units will be staffed by a detective sergeant and two detective constables. A period of training means it will take at least a few weeks before these units are up and running. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and West Midlands Police (Birmingham) already had officers on staff who handled cybercrime cases and worked with private-sector forensic experts and expert witnesses, so the new hubs are more about formalising existing capabilities than adding something that previously only existed in London.

Source: UK cops set up new £30m bases to nail cybercrooks ? The Register

So that's whole 9 police officers to bring down cyber crime - I feel sorry for the crooks already!

P.S. I hate quoting the register!!!