Formed 1995 | National agency
(Operations jurisdiction) Greece | |
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Legal jurisdiction As per operations jurisdiction. Governing body Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction General nature Law enforcement
Civilian police | ||
The Cyber Crime Unit (Greek: Υποδιεύθυνση Δίωξης Ηλεκτρονικού Εγκλήματος) of the Hellenic Police, was formed in 1995. The headquarters of the agency is in Athens.
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History
The Cyber Crime Unit was a concept of its current director, FBI-trained Brigadier General Manolis Sfakianakis.
The unit started operation with just two officers, and is currently run by over 80 law enforcement agents and civilians holding bachelor, or PhD degrees from universities such as the Imperial College of London, Stanford University and the M.I.T. .
Sectors
The Cyber Crime Unit has the following sectors :
Services
Since 2004, when the unit was upgraded to a full department of the Hellenic Police, it has resolved over 6,000 cases of fraud, extortion and child abuse, while several resolved cases were only partially committed in Greece.
The unit has intervened in an extremely large amount of suicide attempts, saving altogether over 600 lives.
In addition, the Cyber Crime Unit is operating a website called Cyber - Kid which is providing useful information to children and parents using the Internet.
Since 2013, the Cyber Crime Unithas organised a number of conferences all over Greece, to inform children and parents on the dangers of internet use. After the first conference, the Cyber Crime Center launched a live streaming website projecting the conferences in real time.