Bhubaneswar: In order to deal with emerging cybercrime threats, the Odisha Police has decided to set up a Regional Cyber Crime Coordination Centre.
This has been informed by Additional Director General of Police (Crime Branch), Santosh Kumar Upadhyay here on Tuesday.
The centre will function from the building of newly constructed Cybercrime police station in the state capital, Upadhyay said.
“The centre will promote interstate collaboration for handling of multi-jurisdictional cybercrime cases and take up cybercrime awareness initiative for people to help them get protected from cybercrime,” he added.
He further said that a Cyber Petition Cell will also work to block and remove objectionable contents from social media and other pornographic sites.
“We will also expedite the process of imparting training to police personnel to deal with cyber crime cases. So far 340 police personnel have undergone the first phase of training,” he further stated.
The State Police so far this year has received as many as 216 complaints through the portal.