Al Mazeina opened the Third Interpol’s Group of Experts Meeting on IT Crime in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the Dubai Police Academy on Sunday.
“The UAE and the Dubai Police have given this type of crime special attention due to the importance of trade, tourism, and global status of the country.”
He also outlined some of the measures already taken: “Dubai Police has established an Electronic Investigation Department at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to carry out several tasks, most notably, to raise the public’s awareness of the dangers of cyber crime and how to deal with scams, fraud, extortion and temptation received through mobile phones and computers via the Web and the importance of keeping their privacy and their secrets away from swindlers.”
He said the public has been made aware as to how to face perpetrators of these crimes locally and internationally, in coordination with all concerned authorities.
The two-day meet has drawn an array of experts from e-security and academic institution. In attendance was the President of Interpol MENA Group of Experts on IT Crime, Ali Al-Kubaisi.
Al Kubaisi revealed that most of these crimes in the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) areas are related to emotional and physical blackmail; paving way for the penetration of official web sites.
He sounded a warning that if unchecked, such crimes serve “to damage the morals of the conservative Arabic community in general and particularly the gulf community.”
Al Mazeina called upon all representatives of participating countries to form positive recommendations and decisions to raise the degree of coordination and cooperation and gain more job skills that contribute in raising team efficiencies and to handle assigned tasks and duties.
The Vice president of Financial and High-Tech Crime Sub-Directorate at Interpol, Jaime Ansieta, said that at the level of governments, MENA countries need to do more in combating cyber crime.
He pointed out that 90 per cent of the ways of combating cyber-crime depend on the awareness that must target the community and officials alike.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Ghaisa Ghaibour
Quelle/Source: The Gulf Today, 13.12.2010
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