Baden-Württemberg starts cybercrime center to combat virtual crime

Baden-Württemberg starts cybercrime center to combat virtual crime

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The Cybercrime Center Baden-Württemberg started the work on January 1, 2024 and is responsible for particularly demanding procedures of virtual crime nationwide. The center will serve as a central public prosecutor's office for topics in the field of combating cybercrime.

Marion Gentges, Minister of Justice and for Migration, emphasized the importance of the Center for Criminal Secision in the field of cybercrime. She explained: "The starting signal for the cybercrime center in Baden-Württemberg has fallen: concentrated law enforcement skills for the whole country in one place and the first procedures are already being processed. So we can offer cyber criminals even better and more powerfully and continue to stop crime on the net."

The center, which is located at the General Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe, will be equipped with 50.5 jobs. As part of an integrated investigative approach, it is intended to enrich the public prosecutor's expertise through the technical expertise from IT forensicists. The IT speakers of the center will play an advisory and investigative role in specific investigation.

The tasks of the cybercrime center include the public prosecutor's procedural processing of outlooked investigations from the field of cybercrime, the participation in the public prosecutor's training and further education, the creation of an annual position on cyber crime and the central public prosecutor's office for topics from the field of combating cyber crime.

In the past few months, the Attorney General Karlsruhe and the Ministry of Justice have been dealing with creating the legal, organizational and personnel requirements for commissioning the center. Although the positioning procedures have not yet been completed, the cybercrime center has now officially started its work.

The creation of the Cybercrime Center Baden-Württemberg could have far-reaching effects on combating cybercrime in the country. The bundling of expertise and resources in a central location enables more effective law enforcement and containment of cybercrime. In addition, the center will play an important role in training and further education in the field of cybercrime and create an annual image of cybercrime, which serves as the basis for preventive measures.