Panaji: State govt on Thursday set up the Goa Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (G4C) to ensure effective coordination, analysis, and response to cybercrime across the state. G4C will monitor the investigation of cybercrime cases and complaints received through online platforms, as well as offline complaints registered at police stations.G4C will provide technical, analytical, and operational support to cybercrime investigations, and enhance cybercrime prevention through awareness, training, and capacity building. It will also facilitate the freezing, reversal, and restoration of defrauded money to victims, wherever legally permissible, and act as the nodal interface with national and international cybercrime coordination mechanisms.
G4C will be headed by the deputy inspector general of police (crime), who will function as the nodal officer and exercise overall supervision and control over G4C. The superintendent of police (cyber crime) will be the operational in charge of G4C.Manthan Manoj Naik, under secretary, home department, said that the state cyber crime police station and district cyber units will function in close coordination with G4C.“Registration of FIRs shall continue with the cyber crime police station and district police stations, while G4C shall provide monitoring, technical, analytical, training, and coordination support.”G4C will submit monthly operational and analytical reports to the DGP. Its functioning may be reviewed quarterly by the home secretary. It will have jurisdiction over all of Goa and function as the nodal coordination, monitoring, and response centre for cybercrime.The Supreme Court, in a suo motu writ petition (criminal), directed state govts and union territories to ensure the establishment and operation of regional/state cyber crime coordination centres (R4C/S4Cs). Accordingly, the ministry of home affairs, govt of India, established the Indian cyber crime coordination Centre (I4C) as the national framework for a coordinated response to cybercrime, and issued advisories to states and union territories to strengthen state-level cyber crime coordination, monitoring of cyber crime complaints, and facilitation of inter-state and international co-operation.
