Published Date: 6/8/2007 - (NIE)
A SELVARAJ
Chennai, June 7: Battling sparse infrastructure, the Cyber Crime Wing police have recovered as many as 80 stolen mobile phones and restored them to the respective owners in the last three months.
The cyber wing was finding it difficult to cope with the number of complaints of lost or stolen mobile phones on a day-to-day basis as the wing was handicapped by shortage of manpower, computers and a non-cooperating local police, sources said.
Eventhough the cyber wing sleuths pass on the addresses of the culprits, the local police refuse to trace them.
A few cases were traced after ‘‘we managed to send some of our personnel, inspite of the shortage of staff. If we contact them over phone, they get alerted and approach lawyers,'' lamented a middle level police officer in the wing.
A proposal for upgrading the wing had been sent to senior officials for their acceptance. ‘‘We are expecting a positive reply from our senior officials in this regard and more policemen will be posted soon for strengthening the wing,'' a senior police officer in the Commissionerate said.
‘‘Most of them lose their mobiles in hotels, parks or while travelling. Most of the complaints are filed on Mondays,'' a middle level officer in the cyber wing told Express.
‘‘We keep a diary with the list of names, addresses and contact numbers of the victims. We send the details of lost mobiles with their IMEI numbers to the specific service providers. After tracing the address of the culprit, using the IMEI number, the stolen mobiles are traced,'' Dr M Sudhakaran, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cyber Crime Wing, told Express.
No comments:
Post a Comment