TN: IT students specialising in AI, ethical hacking to help police in cybercrime investigation

Tamil Nadu police is joining hands with IT students with Artificial Intelligence and ethical hacking expertise to solve cybercrime.

To become more efficient and accurate in solving cybercrime, the Coimbatore police has decided to take the help of students of Information Technology with Artificial Intelligence and ethical hacking expertise.

A senior officer said, “Students who are studying IT, software courses, and application development courses will have knowledge about cyber crimes and will be able to advise the police on how to identify those involved in these crimes,” as reported by India.com.

The police also initiated a cyber crime awareness program for college students who are more active on social media and other applications and are prone to such crimes.

Though the police have a full-fledged cyber crime cell, senior officers opine that engaging bright young minds with sound knowledge of the latest trends in IT technologies and software would be an added advantage for the police department.

Police plans to establish ‘Cyber Club’

The department has planned to set up a ‘Cyber Club’ comprising two staff conveners and students from every college in the city. These ‘Cyber Clubs’ will be used to create cyber awareness among students and common people and how to stay away from modern cyber crimes involving morphed photos, misuse of photographs, financial misappropriation, and spurious calls like payment of online bills and thereby swindling money from bank accounts.

“After monitoring the project of Coimbatore Police, if the students we engage are delivering proper results, we are planning to extended this across the state,” said a senior officer with the Tamil Nadu Cyber Cell.

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