Police Scotland becomes first UK force to send staff on university cyber crime training course
Police Scotland is to become the first UK police force to receive training from university experts on tackling cyber crime.
Training: Police Scotland will send staff on a one-week course
A one-week Digital Investigator course has been created by Edinburgh’s Napier University and will provide training on tracing instant messaging, phishing attacks and web traffic analysis.
Cyber experts at the university have spent a year putting the course together and professor Bill Buachanan – director of Edinburgh Napier’s Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks and Security – said it would teach a “deep understanding of network infrastructures and the associated trails of evidence”.
Detective Superintendent Steven Wilson, Police Scotland’s cyber crime lead, was quoted by STV saying: “Investigations in such a quickly evolving area present significant challenges to law enforcement and providing our officers with an in-depth understanding of cyber investigations is fundamental to the delivery of a quality service.”
The course will also aim to help officers learn to gather electronic information quickly to assist in criminal investigations.