IPTS Workshop on Cyber Crime

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IPTS Workshop on Cyber Crime

• German Developments

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Definition

• No common (international) definitions on
• High-tech crime
• Cyber crime
• Computer crime
• It-crime

• No Internet crime

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Definition

• German police

Computer crime all criminal offences containing
ADP in its elements
IT-Crime all criminal offences aimed at
disturbing data networks or using data networks
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Statistics

• Prosecution

Investigation

• Crime Statistics of Police (http//www.bka.de)

• Information service on IT-crime

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Criminal Investigation Departments

• Federal Police Bundeskriminalamt

• State Police 16 States 16 Main offices (in
  state capitals Landeskriminalamt/LKA) ? Field
  offices in each town

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BKA

• IT-Crime Unit

• Intelligence

• Forensics

• Internet investigations

• Internet patrol

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State Polices
Landeskriminalämter

• Computer crime units (investigation)

• Computer forensic units

Field offices

• Fraud units

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Skill
BKA

• Trained officers for Internet investigations in
  two specialised units

Landeskriminalämter

• Trained officers for computer crime

• Few experts for Internet investigations

Field offices

• No trained officers

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Training

• Common concept but no money

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Training
Federal Police

• Private companies

• In-house courses

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Training
State Police

• Differs from State to State

• Introduction by experts of the Federal Police

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Awareness

• Law Enforcement

• Inadequate

• Lack of Readiness

Politicians

• Lack of knowledge of the background

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Co-operation
Business world

• Bankers
• no information voluntarily

• Traders
• fear of rivalry

• Telecommunication carriers

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Co-operation

• Industry

• Lack of knowledge within police

• Lack of time within police

• One-way street to industry side

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Co-operation

• No fixed working group

• Meetings with target groups on current problems
  (e.g. ISPs, Internet auctioneers, consumer
  associations)

• LE - Industry - Conferences

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Main Problems

• Lack of trained and equipped officers

• Privacy

• Procedural law

• Mutual legal assistance