STATE-OF-THE-ART LAB. Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) Executive Director Cezar Mancao II (middle) led the inauguration of the country's first Digital Forensics Platform and Laboratory (DFPAL) at the CICC office in Quezon City on Friday (June 17, 2022). The laboratory, he said, will be used to boost the country's fight against online sexual abuse and the exploitation of children. (PNA photo by Raymond Carl Dela Cruz) MANILA - The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) has launched the country's first and state-of-the-art Digital Forensics Platform and Laboratory (DFPAL) to help the country's fight against online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC). Speaking at the inauguration of the DFPAL at the CICC office in Quezon City on Friday, CICC Executive Director Cezar Mancao II said the digital laboratory is the flagship program of the CICC under the Duterte administration and will mostly be used to investigate and solve
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