View Poll Results: If you've provided IT-evidence to the police, did they:

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  • Appear to completely ignore it / do nothing with it

    2 40.00%

  • Use it to get a conviction / make a court case

    2 40.00%

  • Look confused and faintly worried by this IT malarky and shuffle their feet

    1 20.00%

  • Drop the case due to insufficient evidence

    0 0%

  • Never actually turn up

    0 0%
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  1. 10th March 2009, 05:31 PM #1
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    Police responsiveness / understanding of computer-related shenanigans?

    "We have got 140,000 cops and most of them don't know one end of the computer from the other," -- Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, who will head the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) - from El Reg: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03...ament_malware/

    I've provided computer-related evidence/testimony to the police here about five times for various things that have been done by or to our students. The cases were open and shut - it was clear what had happened and where the blame lay.

    But somehow during the evidence -> police brains > "yay, easy conviction" > court > justice interchange, nothing was done.
    Last edited by pete; 10th March 2009 at 05:36 PM.
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