Virginia Cops Pool Tech Resources
Published: Friday, December 15, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
VIRGINIA COPS POOL TECH RESOURCES
Computer crime on the rise
Computer crime is on the rise everywhere. Few police departments have the resources to do much about it, but that may soon change in central Virginia.
It used to be a police or sheriff's department would get just a few computer related crime complaints a month. Now one comes in just about every day. Most agencies can't deal with them on their own.
Eight agencies in central Virginia have decided to join forces. Each member agency is providing a part-time investigator to help combat Internet related crimes. They have already nabbed a woman who ran an adoption scam in Campbell County. They also nabbed a man who used a fake identity to run up online gambling debts.
The investigators are working out of offices in Rustburg, where they can forensically analyse a seized computer, do online research, or pose as potential cyber victims. They gain more knowledge and expertise with every case.
