TN police want techies' help to tackle terror

E-POLICE: These IT professionals by helping police in monitoring cyberspace want to prove that they share a deep commitment to society .

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Chennai: Tamil Nadu police has befriended a group of software professionals to monitor the cyber world as the terrorists have now started using Internet for their illegal activities.

This technical group is called the E friends of police and is the latest weapon in the hands of the police to patrol cyberspace. The group also includes engineering college students like 19-year-old Sathya Priyan.

“There is a cyberworld and so there is cyber crime and this is the anti cyber crime force and I wanted to do my bit for this,” says Priyan.

Like 23-year-old Mohammed Hussain, most of them are software professionals.

“As a professional it's my responsibility to clean cyberspace but today I am not equipped to do so and now with the training given by the EFOP programme I will be equipped to keep the cyberspace clean,’” says Hussain who works with Tata Consultancy services.

As terrorism and organised crime become increasingly net savy police officials hope that these software professionals will play a key role in being interface between traditional policing and cyberspace.

"They can do the job better than we in the police force and it creates a deterrent and spreads awareness and becomes a deterrent to cybertheft, cyberterorrism and cyber fraud,” says Inspector General of Police, Social and Justice and Human Rights Dr Prateep V Philip.

So, as the police force befriends these IT professionals they are now a powerful interface between a young urban phenomenon and an old and powerful state machinery.