UK police lack e-crime savvy officers
A hi-tech skills crisis in law enforcement threatens to set back the wider fight against crime, a report out today warns.
e-crime is on the rise and digital evidence is playing a greater and greater role in mainstream criminal investigations. There are around 140,000 police officers in the UK. Barely 1,000 of them have been trained to handle digital evidence at the basic level and fewer than 250 are currently with Computer Crime Units or have higher level forensic skills. Add in the civilian staff of the Forensic Science Service and its contractors and the pool of full-time expertise is still under 400...
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May 18, 2004
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