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C O P S T O D A Y International coming up with new shape and v i s i o n , i s h i g h ly acclamined by differ-ent sects of the society and all over the world. I n t e r n a t i o n a l l y reputed Criminologist of Canada, Mr. John Winterdyke has contributed an article in this issue on acute gateway role of police in the criminal justice system. News from different spheres of police activities will surely enhance the knowledge of latest scientific development in police modernisation.

Foundation for Police Research (FPR) feels that propensity of criminals and terrorism to cross national borders-to engage in "transnational crime"- is certainly not a new phenomenon; it is probably as old as the borders them-selves. Borders were established to delineate the jurisdiction claimed by each state, and crossing national borders has often provided criminals with a way to mitigate or avoid the consequences of illegal acts. Yet in spite of a long, eventful history, there is strong evidence that transnational crime and terrorist activi-ties have become more prevalent and ser ious today than ever be fore . Foundation for Police Research (FPR) is going to organise next gala event of Police Expo and Conference in the month of May, 2018 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Theme of the conference is the F u t u r e C h a l l e n g e i n C o m b a t i n g Transnational Terrorism and Crime.“Our courage and success is our reader and wellwisher”

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How Indian Police is being trained to tackle cybercrimeB E N G A L U R U : Personnel from nearly 1,000 police stations in Karnataka will be t ra ined to handle cybercrime as the s t a t e p l a n s o n e cybercrime station per district by 2019.

“We are starting from zero,” Praveen Sood, director-general of police (CID), who has begun an intensive two-stage training programme on how to deal with hacking, online harassment, c r e d i t / d e b i t c a r d fraud, data theft etc, for ranks till the level o f c o n s t a b l e . H e m a i n t a i n s t h a t training personnel remains the challenge when i t comes to dealing with digital crime.

Karnataka was the first to establish a d e d i c a t e d p o l i c e s t a t i o n t o h a n d l e digital crime 15 years ago. Other states , i n c l u d i n g U t t a r

P r a d e s h a n d Maharashtra, have stepped up police training, including seeking out experts from industry.

“We are now setting up a predictive unit, which will analyse d a t a p o i n t s f r o m across the web and try to predict the areas t h a t n e e d m o r e vigilance and crimes that are more com-mon,” said Balsing Rajput, superinten-dent of police, cyber, Maharashtra . The ministry of electronics a n d i n f o r m a t i o n

technology (MeitY) has collaborated with the Data Secur i ty C o u n c i l o f I n d i a (DSCI) to set up cyber forensic labs in all m e t r o c i t i e s f o r training and building a w a r e n e s s o f cybercrime investiga-tion.

T h e N a t i o n a l Information Security E d u c a t i o n & Awareness ( ISEA) programme expects to train over one lakh people — not just police personnel — by 2020. “These sessions have been happening

for some time now,” says Dr Triveni Singh, additional superin-tendent of pol ice , Uttar Pradesh Police, w h o t r a i n s l a w enforcement depart-m e n t s a c r o s s t h e c o u n t r y . “ W e a r e invited by the CBI and many such agencies to hold training sessions in cyber forensics and internet investigation for one or two weeks.”

Dr Anup Girdhar, c h i e f e x e c u t i v e , Sedulity Solutions & T e c h n o l o g i e s , a n o n l i n e s e c u r i t y services firm, says training in identifying vulnerabilities and mitigating attacks is elaborate — often t a k i n g c o u p l e o f months. “Until an officer clears the first session, he’s not taken to the next level,” said Girdhar, who expects more participation from the police as digital training is b e i n g m a n d a t e d

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Abu Dhabi Police launch crime-fighting 3D printing initiative

NIT Mizoram students call off stir after police starts probe Lawrence police update body cameras to turn on whenever a gun is pulled from an officer's holster

Abu Dhabi furthers its position as a 3D printing ca p i t a l w i t h a n e w announcement from the city’s police department. According to reports from Emirates News Agency, the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), also known as WAM, the Abu Dhabi Police has launched a 3D printing initiative to help solve crimes.

3D printing in the UAE

F r o m 3 D p r i n t e d b u i l d i n g s , t o t h e m i l l i o n s o f d o l l a r s available to startups, the UAE is committed to b e c o m i n g a w o r l d leader in cutting-edge technology.

Many of the activity has been localized in Dubai,

through the Future A c c e l e r a t o r s f u n d , efforts by the Roads and Transport Authority, and inauguration of the S m a r t B u i l d a b i l i t y Index.

Recently, the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and GE Additive signed an MoU in March 2017 committing to a project for advancing the UAE’s c o m m i t m e n t t o t h e ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ ( I IOT), and

accelerating its status as a h u b f o r 3 D pr int ing by the year 2030.

F o l l o w i n g t h i s , A b u D h a b i launched its G l o b a l

Manufac tur ing and I n d u s t r i a l i s a t i o n Summit (GMIS) with 3D printing as a key focus for the future and GE as a founding partner.

Further, 3D software company Aut odesk invested $100 million in future UAE startups through the Spark Fund.

A new layer of fighting crime

Bel iev ing tha t t ech innovation too is the way forward for the

city’s police force, Abu Dhabi Police will be applying 3D printing to help in handling of evidence.

3D printed dioramas could, for example, be used to help thoroughly asses a crime scene, or communicate to the court a series of events. A similar initiative has been set up in the UK by the West Yorkshire Police and, in Cascade County, Montana the police are applying 3D scanning for crime scene investigation.

Brigadier Abdulrahman Al Hammadi, Director o f t h e C r i m i n a l E v i d e n c e A d m i n i s t r a t i o n , i s leading the initiative and also hopes to make

3D printed models that are helpful in training exercises, and customer service activities that help promote the force.

In line with the UAE’s vision of the future, the new 3D printing inititive is part of Abu Dhabi Police’s 2057 Plan for a c i t y p o w e r e d b y technology.

According to Lt. Colonel Sul ieman Al Kaabi , Director of Innovation and the Future, at the time of the announce-ment, “Forecasting the future is a key engine for Abu Dhabi Pol ice ’s efforts to address global trends, challenges and opportunities through preventive scenarios and solutions.”

The agitating students of the National Institute o f T e c h n o l o g y , Mizoram, called off their indefinite s t ir against poor quality of hostel food which they alleged had caused the death of a student , police said today.

T h e s t u d e n t s , w h o launched agitation on April 2, called off their stir yesterday after the police started enquiry into the death of the student, they said.

A first year student S e v s h a r a n K u m a r , hailing from Bihar, was taken ill in the NIT hostel at Tanhril near Aizawl on March 26 and died in a Guwahati hospital on March 31, they said.

The NIT students alleged that Kumar died after consuming rotten food served in hostel mess.

The police took up the c a s e a n d l a u n c h e d

investigation into the cause of the death of Kumar and also whether t h e h o s t e l w a r d e n provided poor quality food to the boarders, they said.

Earlier yesterday, at the instructions of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the Principal Secretary (Home) Amir Subhani had called up the Home Department of Mizoram, about the stir b y s t u d e n t s o f N I T Mizoram.

The Mizoram govern-m e n t o f fi c i a l s h a d assured Subhani that the

government of the north-e a s t e r n s t a t e w a s "committed to security a n d w e l f a r e o f a l l s t u d e n t s o f N I T , Mizoram", an official release said in Patna.

Subhani had also called u p t h e U n i o n H R D Ministry and learnt that the department had sent a senior official to the north-eastern state for resolving the issue, the release said adding "the Home department of B i h a r i s k e e p i n g a constant watch on the situation".

LAWRENCE, Ind. -- As t h e n a t i o n a l d e b a t e continues about body cameras and when and how they should be used, Lawrence police have a new too l tha t t akes turning the camera on out of the officer’s hands altogether and makes s u r e e v e r y m o m e n t possibly questionable encounter between an officer and the public is on tape.

The Lawrence Police Department now has body cameras that turn on as soon as an officer pulls their gun out of its holster.

“It’s one more thing that takes the officer’s mind off the camera system and focuses on the threat directly in front of them,” said Lawrence Police Chief David Hofmann.

Lawrence police first s t a r t e d u s i n g t h e updated technology back in 2016. Their cameras back then would turn on as soon as an officer activated their lights and sirens or if an officer started running – but the new technology includes auto-starting the camera as soon as a gun is pulled from the holster.

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Aussie-founded tech company YuuZoo raided by Singapore police in securities probe

Austral ian-founded technology company YuuZoo is under police i n v e s t i g a t i o n i n Singapore over allega-tions it breached the country’s Securities and Futures Act.

C o - f o u n d e d b y Australian tech entre-preneur Ron Creevey and former Nokia Asia Pacific chief executive Thomas Zilliacus in 2007, the Singapore-listed company claims t o m a k e “ s o c i a l e -commerce networks” for brands.

According to The Straits Times, the company’s Singapore headquarters were raided last week as part of an investigation b y t h e c i t y s t a t e ’ s Commercial Affairs D e p a r t m e n t o v e r breaches related to its franchise arrangements between 2013 and 2016.

T h o m a s Z i l l i a c u s , YuuZoo’s co-founder a n d c u r r e n t c h i e f executive officer, has h a n d e d o v e r h i s passport to the CAD, t h e S t r a i t s T i m e s

reported.

Creevey – who claims to be no longer associ-ated with the company – w a s p r e v i o u s l y managing director of Magna Data, one of A u s t r a l i a ’ s e a r l y I n t e r n e t S e r v i c e Providers, and was a major shareholder in the late Heath Ledger’s artistic collaborative, The Masses.

In 2010, when YuuZoo recruited Telstra’s then head of content, Chris Taylor, to the company, C r e e v e y s a i d t h e company would be “the first truly global new media company run out of Australia”.

Taylor left Yuuzoo to j o i n Q u i c k i x t h e following year and the company went on to list on the Singapore Stock E x c h a n g e i n 2 0 1 4 following a reverse takeover.

In a statement posted on the Singapore Stock E x c h a n g e l a s t Thursday, the company said: “As at the date of this announcement, the

CAD has not disclosed to the company any further details on the a b o v e m e n t i o n e d investigations.

“The company wil l cooperate fully with the CAD in its investigation a n d w i l l m a k e announcement as and when there are further significant develop-ments with regard to this matter.”

YuuZoo specialises in making gamified social commerce platforms and in 2015 was said to h a v e p a r t n e r s a n d f r a n c h i s e e s i n 6 8 countries, including C h i n a , F r a n c e a n d Nigeria.

Among YuuZoo’s most n o t a b l e p r o d u c t s released in Singapore was a mobile game called Honey Snatch.

However, since its SGX listing, YuuZoo has been embroiled in a civil lawsuit in New York that alleged the com-pany and its founders, including Zill iacus, C r e e v e y a n d M a r k Cramer-Roberts, had engaged in securities fraud.

In the lawsui t , the founders are alleged to have made YuuZoo look like a successful entity valued at $US383 million (S$490 million).

Since the Singapore

police’s investigation w a s l a u n c h e d , YuuZoo’s trading on S G X h a s b e e n s u s-pended.

In its latest financial statement from last y e a r , t h e c o m p a n y made significant losses of S$20,678,000 before tax. The previous year, it had made a gross profit S$4,102,000.

Meanwhile, its losses before interest, taxes, d e p r e c i a t i o n a n d amortisation came to S$12,758,000 against its EBITDA of S$12,222,000 in 2016.

The company said it raised S$30 million in investor funding, but its revenue from last year amounted to around S$519,000. The year previously, YuuZoo had made S$4,878,000, marking a fall of nearly 90%.

A c c o r d i n g t o t h e results, the losses were caused by “significant impairments of avail-able for sale assets”.

Across the country, police brutality and the series of fatal shootings of mostly black men have soured many on the role that police officers play in the community. To combat those negative assess-ments, police forces are turning to an array of new technologies, such as body cameras, new c o m m u n i c a t i o n s technologies and social m e d i a m o n i t o r i n g

services to (ostensibly) become more account-able to and engaged with the citizens they’re policing.

With the new w a v e o f s p e n d i n g c o m e s m o r e venture capital d o l l a r s i n v e s t e d i n technologies that entrepre-n e u r s a r e developing to

solve these problems.

L o s A n g e l e s - b a s e d SPIDR Tech, founded by two former officers, Rahul Sidhu and Elon

Kaiserman, is one of the companies benefiting from this newfound interest in pol ic ing t e c h n o l o g y . T h e company raised $2.5 million from investors, inc luding S idewalk Labs (the urban tech subsidiary of Alphabet, G o o g l e ’ s h o l d i n g company), Birchmere V e n t u r e s , S t a g e V e n t u r e s , K a i r o s Association, Heartland Ventures and No Name

Ventures.

From Tucson to San Antonio and Grover B e a c h t o R e d o n d o Beach, police depart-ments are using SPIDR T e c h ’ s a u t o m a t e d messaging system to h e l p d e p a r t m e n t s respond to victims of crimes and keep them informed of the status of the investigation into their case.

Making policing more responsive, SPIDR Tech raises $2.5 million

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Scottish police to deploy hi-tech gadgets which access phone data

SCOTTISH police have spent £370,000 on forty-one “cyber k iosks” which can overr ide mobi le phone pass-words to access private d a t a s u c h a s t e x t messages, encrypted conversations, photos, web browsing history, contacts and call records in a matter of seconds.

The Sunday Herald revealed last week that a pilot of the technology, i n E d i n b u r g h a n d Stirling, saw specially-trained officers access 375 phones and 262 sim cards during investiga-tions of what Police Scotland called “low-level crime”.

In a significant rollout of the initiative, kiosks will now be distributed to officers “across the country” so that they can see what is held on s e i z e d p h o n e s ,

D e t e c t i v e C h i e f Inspector Brian Stuart said.

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The senior officer also said they would only e x t r a c t “ r e l e v a n t information” and “no data will be retained on the kiosk”, but politi-c i a n s a n d p r i v a c y

c a m p a i g n e r s h a v e raised concerns about whether information will be held elsewhere.

I s r a e l i c o m p a n y C e l l e b r i t e , w h i c h m a n u f a c t u r e s t h e kiosks, boasts on its website that they can “access a wide range of e v i d e n c e s o u r c e s , including encrypted or locked mobile devices, public and private social media and other cloud data”.

Details of the £370,000 police contract for the kiosks appeared on the P u b l i c C o n t r a c t s Scotland website on Thursday. The Scottish Police Authority, which procured the devices for Police Scotland, also r u b b e r s t a m p e d a contract for "Evidence Management System S u p p o r t a n d Maintenance’ worth £431,000, and a contract for "eDiscovery and Analytics Software" worth £286,000. Both contracts were awarded on Friday, the day after the kiosks were signed off.

Solicitor Millie Wood, of c a m p a i g n g r o u p Privacy International, said: “Given that the police in Scotland have spent more than £1m this week, it’s clear they’re steamrollering ahead, even though

there is little in the way of detail and no consul-tation. The big question i s w h e t h e r t h i s i s lawful?”

Former police officer John Finnie, who is now an MSP and the justice s p o k e s m a n f o r t h e Scottish Greens, intends to question the head of t h e S c o t t i s h P o l i c e Authority about the contracts.

He said: “It is concern-ing that Police Scotland has apparently invested substantial funds in devices designed to collect mass personal data with seemingly little public discussion on the issue. Accessing personal data when there are reasonable grounds to believe it can help tackle crime is one thing, but mass collec-tion would be quite another.

Police Scotland will use cyber kiosks like the one pictured to access mobile phones