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BHUBANESWAR: Despite massive awareness campaigns by police and banks, a number of internet users continue to fall victim to cyber attacks in the state.
While reviewing the performance of the newly established cyber help desk in the city, commissioner of police Sudhanshu Sarangi found that unidentified cyber crooks cheated people of nearly Rs 1.14 crore across the state in the past one month.
The cyber help desk was set up here on January 7 to provide assistance to victims. Though the help desk s jurisdiction is limited to Bhubaneswar, cops have been receiving calls from across the state. We received over 1,200 complaints from different districts in the past one month. At least 370 were from Bhubaneswar. All of the callers lost money to cyber criminals. Those who called the help desk within one hour (golden hour) from the time of being cheated got back portions of their money, Sarangi said.
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BHUBANESWAR: The year 2020 gone by saw an unprecedented increase in the workload of the police personnel. Bhubaneswar-Cuttack commissioner of police Sudhanshu Sarangi speaks to Debabrata Mohapatra on the road ahead for the twin cities police.
What were the biggest challenges of 2020?
Since mid-March, we have been assisting public health officials in slowing down the pandemic. Enforcing the lockdown measures with empathy and minimizing the health risks to staff were significant challenges. People have seen police in a new way during this epidemic. I hope this enhanced trust will mitigate some of the baggage of our colonial legacy and allow a new narrative about police to emerge. Losing seven of our personnel to Covid-19 was heart-wrenching.