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A crime is no longer necessarily locally directed and has become multifaceted. Thus, can it be organized thousands of kilometers away using computer networks located in different territories.
The low cost of technology and the unregulated growth of the Web have created lucrative avenues for criminals, making citizens and organizations vulnerable, not only through direct physical contact, but through cybercrime; a fact that further complicates the work of law enforcement! The Congolese police force by virtue of its original missions should no longer be satisfied with its traditional methods and techniques to accomplish its missions, it must appropriate New Information and Communication Technologies to take advantage of them in relation to its work. Naturally, certain forms of crime had as obligatory channels, the communication by word of mouth to elaborate their operational strategies and the physical presence at the scene of the crime; but today, mobile telephony, the Internet bypass all these traditional methods making the accomplishment of crimes and their refinement even more efficient.
Citizen expectations have also been stimulated by the dominant accountability movement and discussion of causes that receive media attention. Add to this an unwavering taste for dramatic series in which all crimes are solved. This context puts pressure on the Police to further increase the work of investigating, discovering and punishing crimes on the basis of a law outdated by the new forms of offences.
In this logic, Arielle Chemla declares that "Indeed, in the case of "ordinary" crime, police forces should have sufficient means and techniques to deal with cybercrime; otherwise, the specificities of cybercrime should give rise to a specialization of police forces. Faced with the obstacles to the criminal response that cyberspace poses, law enforcement has had to adapt". Lawless zone", "legal void", or "anomic virtual platform": the application of criminal law in the digital world is sometimes so weak that the literature does not hesitate to compare cyberspace to a world without law because of the difficulty of applying digital criminal law. Indeed, repression comes up against two major obstacles limiting the scope of the fundamentals of criminal law: French territoriality in cyberspace under construction and the identification of anonymous offenders.
As a result, public opinion is increasingly expecting the police to broaden their field of intervention, change their methods of action and adapt their repression to the requalification of offences arising from the law. As a reminder, the population could call on the police for a quarrel between neighbors, for a rabid dog, to arrest burglars of property in a building or on a public road. Citizens wanted everything on demand in real time, including a physical police presence anywhere. In addition, tight budgets, poorly controlled and poorly managed geographic spaces no longer allow for a police officer to be posted on every street corner, to react in real time, especially given the urgent need for a police force. It is therefore imperative to consider cybercrime, which is taking on proportions that are not sufficiently controlled.
Police, Computer science, Prevention, Automation, Monitoring, Remote monitoring, Protection, Security, Crime, Cybercrime
