The national police AGENCY to start a recruitment for 30 new digital detectives. Thus the number of investigators who deal with high tech crime doubled. There is also a space for 29 it workers that child pornography must detect.
The team at the National Police dealing with digital crime is currently composed of 30 experts, but this number will be doubled this year to 60, as has been the acting police chief Patricia Zorko Tuesday, according to The Volkskrant published. The number of detectives that online research does to the creators and distributors of child pornography, grows from 11 to 40. The expansion is a key priority of the government.
“The objective in addressing the problem of cybercrime is to come to a tripling of the number of major international affairs through the High Tech Crime Team of up to 20 per year in 2015. In 2012, there will be approximately eight to ten cases can be run.”, wrote the government in september, in the notes to the budget for the Ministry of Security and Justice. There would be the various police forces, more attention should come for digital crime and the international cooperation would be expanded.
Ronald Prins, founder of security firm Fox-IT, doubts whether there are enough ict specialists by level. With the ministry of Defence and the General Intelligence and Security service could, in fact, already a great shortage of digital experts, writes BNdeStem. Fox-IT has also, however, an interest in the subject; the government, the company regularly for it to investigate. The minister called this dependence, in October 2011, yet ‘undesirable’.