Rwanda National Police

Thirty-one Interpol Officers from 22 countries, on February 26th, completed a four-day training in  cyber crime investigation at Rwanda National Police (RNP) Head Quarters’ Ethics Centre, in Kacyiru.

While officially closing the training, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Emmanuel K. Gasana observed, “Cyber crime is one the sophisticated crimes."

 "Related acts pose a great threat to the entire world. It is time states cooperate by sharing timely information to deal with it effectively,” the IGP said.

He lauded trainers for making the course a success and thanked participants for taking the course seriously.

The IGP appealed to the officers to make good use of the acquired techniques to properly investigate on cyber-related crimes efficiently.

The Director for Interpol Digital Crime Centre, Sanjay Virmani,said,”No single country and no one individual can fight alone cyber crimes".

"It requires a team efforts. Timely disseminated and shared information is key to handling related crimes effectively,” Virman said.

The training covered areas like Computer Forensics on VISA cases, Networking Internet Fundamentals, E-mails forensics and digital crime profiling.

The officers were also taught on how to investigate on social media investigation, as well as how to preserve and report online data.

Cyber crimes include fraudulent sales, hacking,selling of personal and private online  information.

And one of the participants, Chief Sup. Adesoji K.IDOWU,from Nigeria, who spoke on behalf of the participants, thanked RNP and Interpol for what he called, “a capacity boosting training,”Adesoji said.

 “The acquired skills and knowledge will enable us investigate on serious crimes, especially those related to cyber. We commit to use them fruitfully for the good of the entire world,” he observed.

The training which was organized by Interpol in partnership with RNP was also attended by three officers from Interpol offices in Nairobi and France.

The officers were also given certificates of attendance.

Course participants are from Interpol Zone V countries which are Malawi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Seychelles, Swaziland, Zambia, Sudan, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria.

others are Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Mauritius, Djibouti, Lesotho, Mozambique and the host, Rwanda.