Now, a proposal to register cyber crimes at all police stations in Pune

The cyber crime cell has readied a proposal seeking the registration of cyber crimes at all police stations in the city. Currently, the complainants have to visit the cyber crime police station at Shivajinagar headquarters to register their grievances.

According to the directives issued, a cybercrime investigation and prevention cell will be formed at each police station, where five dedicated police staffers under the supervision of police inspector (crime) will handle the complaints related to cyber crime. The decision has been taken to provide relief to the complainants who had to run from pillar to post to reach the cyber crime police station from far flung corners of the city. Cyber crimes were being lodged only at the special cyber police station ever since it became operational in 2018.

Since 2018, the cyber crime police station at Shivajinagar has been the single point of contact for registration of cyber fraud related complaints. The percentage of registration of cyber crime related FIR’s had been less despite a number of frauds taking place, as there was no arrangement to lodge an FIR at the police stations which forced citizens to travel long distances to Shivajinagar and even led to many of them cancelling their decision to lodge cases, said officials.