Cybercrime is a growing problem in our ever more technologically minded modern society, and MUP is catching up, too.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 8th of January, 2020, the Croatian Ministry of the Interior (MUP) has begun implementing the project called ”Strengthening MUP’s Capacity to Combat All Forms of Cybercrime ”, in which it will procure equipment worth almost one million euros and educate police officers on how to successfully combat cybercrime.
A statement from MUP claims that the decision to award the project implementation funding was made by the Schengen Coordination and EU Funds Independent Sector, and the project will procure equipment and computer programs that will allow for the efficient execution of court orders to search holders of electronic evidence such as computers, laptops, tablets, hard drives, mobile (cell) phones and more.
In addition, 31 police officers will be intensively trained to raise their competencies for successfully combating cybercrime in Croatia. The topics of education will be the basics of attack and protection of information systems and information security, architecture, models, mechanisms and principles of information technology, digital traces, evidence and forensics, as well as prevention, surveillance and more specialised areas of cyber-attacks.
The allocation of funding for these projects is based on the exclusive competence of the Cyber Security Police Crime Service, with a total estimated budget of 995,000 euros with VAT, while the European Union’s co-financing percentage stands at ninety percent of that figure in total.
MUP has stated that the training of the police officers, which was based on a previously conducted public tender, has been being conducted by the Algebra Tenderer Community d.o.o. and the Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing from November 2019, and will continue until February this year.
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