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By Gifty Amofa / Eric Appah Marfo, RNG
Accra, May 28, GNA – The Criminal and
Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police has organized a two-day
training workshop for justice system
Cybercrime and electronic evidence.
The workshop, which was organized in
collaboration with the Western Conference of Western Attorneys General-Africa Alliance
Partnership (CWAGAAP) on Cyber Crime
Relevant stakeholders within the criminal justice system to effectively
investigated and prosecuted cyber-related crimes.
Commissioner of Police (COP) Mrs Maame Yaa
Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, Director General of the Criminal Investigative Department
(CID) said Cyber risk was currently at the top of international agenda.
She said the proliferation of cyber attacks
has been increasing,
culminating in huge financial losses and other untold hardships to victims.
She said it was not surprising that
government and businesses around the world
better cyber defense strategies.
Citing a Cyber Security Venture Report
published in 2018, which projected that cybercrimes would rise to USD six
trillion annually by 2021.
This amount, she said, encompbaded everything
from damage and destruction of sensitive data, stolen money, lost productivity,
theft of intellectual property, theft of personal and financial data,
embezzlement, fraud, post-attack disruption to businesses, forensic investigation,
restoration and deleted hacked data and systems, among others.
Mrs Addo-Danquah said for the dangers caused
by cybercrime, it was imperative to adopt a multi-stakeholder approach, as a
foundation for the effective implementation of various cyber security
activities and programs.
She said it was the intention of the
government to establish a National Cyber Security Center to liaise with
Relevant state agencies and the private sector to oversee cyber security
operations at the national level.
Madam Addo-Danquah commended CWAGAAP for
taking the initiative to equip participants with the requisite knowledge and
cybercrimes to investigate and investigate
protect public purse and individuals against huge financial losses.
She said participants would benefit from the
rich experience and proficiency of eminent facilitators who would bring their
adult-learning skills and methodology for the collective benefit of
participants.
Mrs Addo-Danquah urged participants to use
the opportunity not only to share knowledge
but also establish stronger ties to improve stakeholder collaboration,
cooperation and partnership to achieve the ultimate objective of the workshop.
Chief Superintendent Dr. Gustav Hebert
Yankson, Director of Cybercrime Unit of the Police Service hinted that the
country had suffered fifty crypto attacks on Fifty Internet Service Providers
within the first quarter of the year.
He said the alarming nature of
these crimes as per statistics from the cybercrime unit required a swift
intervention from all stakeholders to curb the phenomena.
Dr. Yankson said strict adherence to
comprehensive cyber security practices was the way to avoid some of these
crimes.
However, he added that since cyber security
was not a panacea to all cyber challenges, there would be perpetrated crimes
within the cyberspace and when these crimes occurred, there would be the need
to investigate and prosecute offenders, "that is where we come in as law
enforcement, "he said.
He stated that the role of investigators
Required that they adduced evidence for successful prosecutions and this
a better understanding of the cyber space and the proper way to
process and handle the evidence adduced.
He said the first cyber laws in Ghana
were promulgated in 2008, Cybercrime investigations and electronic evidence
was missing from main stream font curriculum until about two
years ago.
"As a result, we have knowledge deficiency
"Some of the investigators out there," he added.
Dr. Yankson said because electronic evidence
now permeated all crimes like scrolling, murder, among others, it
Police officers received training
electronic evidence and cybercrime investigations.
He said for the past two years, about 1,800
investigators had been trained in cybercrime investigation and electronic
evidence but there was still more 6,000 more
investigators were yet to be trained.
Dr. Yankson said as part of the Cybercrime
Researchers in electronic evidence
cybercrime investigations, the CID Administration had partnered CWAGAAP to
train more investigators to increase their strength in the fight against all
crimes perpetrated fully or partially in the cyberspace.
"In order to achieve the synergy required,
we decided to put investigators, prosecutors and some other actors
criminal justice sector together for this training, "he added.
The training was done for 50 representatives
from Economic and Organized Crime Office, Food and Drugs Authority, Police
Attorney General's Office and the Judicial Service, and all other actors of the
criminal justice system spread across the various regions of the country.
GNA
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