Bengaluru police to launch new cybercrime report system

Bengaluru police is giving the final shape to a new cybercrime report system, where the victims to get immediate relief. It is called the Cybercrime Incident Report (CIR) system soon to focus mainly on financial fraud.

The financial fraud victims can launch a complaint on a call to the police on 112 and the case will be registered by cops as a Cybercrime Incident Report (CIR) and transferred to cyber crime officials in the CIR control room. Then the cops will work with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to freeze the beneficiary's account within the golden period of two hours.

Kamal Pant, Bengaluru Police Commissioner said this system is the first in the country and a people-friendly system where the victims will get immediate relief from cyber crime cases, especially financial fraud.

The Cybercrime Incident Report system is just like filing an FIR, is an information-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) mechanism being built for the police by a tech firm.The system will alert banks and internet services within around two hours, the golden period, to block a transaction or a social media account reported to be linked to a cyber offence,” said Pant.

As per the prevailing rules, it is mandatory that you come and file a complaint in the police station and you have to sign the FIR. What we are proposing is that wherever a person is located and gets an intimation of an illegal financial transaction, then he can intimate us in real-time, he added.

An expert says, when any cybercrime happens the money gets automatically transferred to various beneficiaries account number in a fraction of minutes, on this how the City police could get relief to the victims of the attack, this remains as the question mark. However, the with this initiatives some local problems can be sorted out.