LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has set up three more cybercrime cells in Punjab to facilitate the complainants.
An FIA official said the cells have been set up in Gujranwala, Faisalabad, and Multan. “We are running the cell by re-distributing the already sanctioned staff at Punjab regional office and Islamabad headquarters until the new recruitment process is completed.”
An amount of Rs1.1 billion has been allocated to upgrade cells across the country and to hire 416 new employees. “At least, 25% of the new staff will be females as the complainants in the majority of the cases registered at the cells are females,” he said. He added the process of recruitment, training and assuming charge at their designated stations will hopefully be completed within a year. There was a little delay as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had banned hiring and transfers in a preview of the policy of General Elections 2018.
Talking about the purpose of setting up the cells, he said the aim is to facilitate the complainants. The Lahore cybercrime cell had received approximately 4,000 complaints related to cybercrime by women between January 2018 and August 2018. “The cell had only 10 staff members to deal with the queries.”
