INTERPOL and University College Dublin have launched a specialist training initiative. The aim is to establish an international standard for digital forensics and cybercrime investigations.
The agreement seeks to provide a framework to implement training as well as academic exchanges to jointly promote law enforcement e-crime investigation expertise and foster computer forensic incident response capability throughout INTERPOL’s 187 member countries.
“With University College Dublin and its Centre for Cybercrime Investigations at the forefront of cybercrime training, today’s agreement between UCD and INTERPOL will help law enforcement develop long-term capacity and expertise in fighting cybercrime and recognised international standards for digital forensics or cybercrime investigations,” said Professor Joe Carthy, Director of the UCD’s Centre for Cybercrime Investigation.
INTERPOL says that it’s committed to raising global standards in the fight against IT crime. It aims to see specialist training in a range of areas including; preserving electronic evidence, enhancing investigation techniques for online crime, capturing evidence of covert activity and managing intelligence-led operations – all essential areas to 21st century e-crime investigations.
"Since Internet crimes are global, complex and difficult to investigate, greater co-operation is needed between all stakeholders to develop a common strategic approach to e-crime and to make better use of scarce resources, and today’s initiative marks a significant step forward in enabling academia and law enforcement to come together under a shared objective " said Elaine Dezenski, INTERPOL’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) Managing Director.
“Training is one of INTERPOL’s core functions, and the agreement signed here today underlines our ongoing commitment to ensuring that all law enforcement officers from each of our 187 member countries can benefit from the highest level of expert knowledge in this field,” said Dale Sheehan, INTERPOL’s Director of Training who signed the agreement with UCD on behalf of the Organization.
INTERPOL has entered into a variety of partnerships with the United Nations, the European Union and the private sector, including Microsoft. Under a recent agreement signed with Microsoft, their Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) software tool will be made available to each of INTERPOL’s 187 member countries. The tool enables police in incident response investigations to access live computer system data by allowing officers to configure and use a set of programmes designed to gather content from a running system without compromising its evidentiary value.
