Computer Crime

[roc311]

Does anyone here work with computer crime related stuff? Does your job fall in line with being a regular cop or trooper or do you fall in will crime scene guys, sine it's a skilled field? Thanks

[Scruit]

The only computer crime around here is Jed hitting his wife with a laptop.

[Swat1]

I am assigned to a child sexual exploitation group and am a trained computer forensic agent. I work child sexual exploitation investigations including the online enticement and coercion of minors to engage in illicit sexual conduct, child pornography and a host of other related crimes while I also conduct the forensics for my cases and the rest of the agents in my office.

In my agency all digital forensic agents are special agents. You must have at least three years in the street before you can go to forensic school.

Swat1*

[chiefhuntr]

I am assigned to a child sexual exploitation group and am a trained computer forensic agent. I work child sexual exploitation investigations including the online enticement and coercion of minors to engage in illicit sexual conduct, child pornography and a host of other related crimes while I also conduct the forensics for my cases and the rest of the agents in my office.

In my agency all digital forensic agents are special agents. You must have at least three years in the street before you can go to forensic school.

Swat1*

Thank you for doing what you do. Good hunting.

[Swat1]

Thank you for doing what you do. Good hunting.

After 14 years in LE and having worked almost everything there is to work from National Security crimes to homicides, I have found my last three years working child sexual exploitation to be the most rewarding.

Swat1*

[Wombat311]

Up to a certain level, we investiagte computer crime. Once it crosses the line (usually a about $25,000) or is obivoulsy child porn it goes to the respective specialised unit or divisional CIU.

Things such as E-bay fraud and the like the general duties copper does here.

[roc311]

I would like to eventually get into something like this or even computer forensics. Is it tough to get in one of the high end units or is it just taking the test and waiting for your "ticket to get punched"? Also most large departments have units like these but I'm thinking that the smaller ones do not b/c of the resources.

I know on the Federal level their several different agencies that have their own comp. sec groups. I know that DHS deals with attacks that could happen against the backbone of the Internet basically large scale stuff.

[Cat_Doc]

We have one detective, from Person Crimes, that has been sent to the computer forensic schools and has one hell of an advanced system set up in a secured room. He predominately catches child pornography cases, but reviews all computers seized in homicides, missing persons, threats, predator cases, etc.

He was the only one that volunteered for the training and assignment as most of the younger detectives want to go out and play, not sit in a secured "humming" room all day.

The guy is damn good at what he does, but bores the crap out of me while describing the exiting strategy he used to defeat “firewalls” and all sorts of other technical terms I don’t understand. He likes to talk in “puter code.” :confused:

[roc311]

Ha ha