IT award for Counter Intelligence unit

Hyderabad: Devender Singh, SP, Counter Intelligence (CI) Cell, on Wednesday received the award for best IT initiative in crime prevention and detection during the NCRB Hackathon that was conducted in June. The award was presented in the National Conference of Cyber Nodal Officers.

The Telangana police presented the Cyber Crime Analysis & Profiling System (CyCAPS) tool in the 'Identification of New IT tools for policing’ section of the hackthon that was conducted by the National Crime Records Bureau.

The tool, highly appreciated by other states, established around 43,000 interstate crime links and 650 offenders were arrested in 238 cases across the country, Telangana police said. Twenty-four states have taken CyCAPS board for exchanging cybercrime and criminal information and for data analysis, identifying offenders, establishing crime and criminal links across the states.