Delhi to get 15 dedicated police stations for cybercrime

The Delhi Police will set up a dedicated police station in each of its 15 police districts to tackle cybercrime cases, according to a gazette notification issued by the Delhi Home Department.

The department said the move was necessary to inquire and investigate cases, adding it will facilitate the extension of better police assistance to the public. Email frauds, social media crimes, mobile app related crimes, business email compromise, data theft, ransomware, net banking/ATM frauds, call frauds, insurance fraud, lottery scam, bitcoin scams, cheating cases, online transaction frauds, gift card frauds, sextortion and phishing-vishing frauds, among others, have been in the rise in the national capital.