Europol: police need more powers on the internet

If Europol is the police more powers on the internet. Otherwise, police officers behind the criminals, according to the director of the police organization, Rob Wainwright. What powers the police have, is not known.

Wainwright made his statements during a meeting with Belgian politicians and members of the european parliament, reports Security.nl. According to Wainwright, the police in the virtual world do not have the same powers as in the ‘real world’. It is according to him important that both the national police and international police organizations the ‘right tool’ to organised crime on the internet to fight, he says.

In the Netherlands, has proposed a bill to give the police more powers to give: so should the police suspects at a distance hacking. Also, should persons accused of child pornography and terrorism can be forced to use their encryption keys to hand over. The legislation must still be approved. The bill is controversial.