Chennai Police To Get High-Tech AI Enabled Lab To Crack Tough Cyber Crime Cases

CHENNAI: It will take five minutes. That is all the Chennai police will need from now on to follow, map, and crack every difficult phishing or hacking case that comes their way. The Chennai police department is establishing an artificial intelligence-driven cyber crime lab at the Vepery commissionerate.

According to Times of India report, cops will have little trouble breaking into the dark web and virtual private networks, as well as live-tracking of mobile phones, owing to next-generation devices equipped with sophisticated networked software that will be onboarded with the cyber crime wing soon.

With over 90% of cases recorded in the city linked to cybercrime, the new cyber lab is intended to assist police in cracking crimes even before the perpetrators can erase or disguise their internet trail or flee.

Tracking a mobile number or trailing a suspect’s movement via phone location used to take a couple of days. When the cyber lab opens, that will be a thing of the past. All cops have to do is enter a mobile phone number or an IP address, and the software will retrieve and display a suspect’s digital footprint in the form of data or a graph.

The results will be presented on massive computer screens, allowing a team of police officials to track live and coordinate with the team on the ground to move in and conduct the arrest, similar to how advanced police forces and military forces in Western countries do it.

The cybercrime laboratory, which is being built for Rs. 5.6 crore, would be operational by the end of this month. To begin, at least four expert software engineers will be brought in to help cybercrime wing staff.

New-generation computers and cyber protocols outperform older technology by delivering results quickly.

In addition to tracking suspects, the tool would assist cops in restoring deleted messages, photos, and videos without physically accessing the devices.

The exclusive laboratory is being built on the ground floor of the commissioner’s annexe building in Vepery. According to a police officer, interior work is currently underway, and the installation of gadgets is in full swing. M K Stalin, the chief minister, will inaugurate the laboratory by the end of this month.