Key police computer unit gets an upgrade
Posted on: Wednesday, 12 March 2003, 06:00 CST
Key police computer unit gets an upgrade
Source: Birmingham Post (UK)
A police unit which specialises in tackling Internet and computer- based crime is to be expanded.
West Midlands Police plans to increase the workforce of the nationally-recognised High Tech Crime Unit by two thirds after seeing a huge increase in computer-related offences.
Its present team, of six officers and a civilian computer expert, will be increased by two officers and two more civilian specialists. The unit was set up two years ago and is recognised as one of the leading computer investigation teams in the country.
As well as playing a major role in Operation Ore, the national investigation into paedophiles, it played a vital part in helping capture the killer of Essex teenager Daniella Jones.
The unit also played an important part in the arrest of two men wanted in connection with antiterrorist activities, after information linking one of them to a bomb-making Internet site was discovered on one of the suspect's computers.
Detective Chief Inspector Jon Hesketh, from Crime Support, said: 'The huge growth in both the Internet and the use of home computers has led to massive pressures being placed on the High Tech Unit.
'We hope that by boosting the staff by two detective constables and two civilian computer experts, we will be in a better position to support the needs of the force in this growing area.'
Det Insp Graham Rabone, who leads the unit, said it needed to expand to cope with its enlarged workload as well as seize the opportunity of gathering computer-based evidence.
He said: 'Two years ago we had two detectives examining eight computers - each having a ten gigabyte memory - a month on average.
'Now we are looking at 80 computers a month, each with 80 gigabyte memories. In the past we looked at diaries or anything which could give us more evidence, now we will be looking at computers increasingly as well.'
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