THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION RELATED TO CYBER CRIMES IN THE TRAINING INSTITUTIONS DEDICATED TO PUBLIC ORDER AND NATIONAL SECURITY-A CASE STUDY FOCUSED ON ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Alexandra Tulvan, Georgica Panfil · eLearning and Software for Education · 2016
Cybercrimes have evolved, in a very short period of time, from just an interesting phenomenon to one of the biggest threats that our society has yet faced. The term of cybercrime is not something new anymore, due to the inconstant evolution of the technologies that were initially meant to ease our life. However, any new progress brings with it different challenges and sometimes some new criminal behaviors. Due to the apparition of the cyber criminality on the global stage, different types of institutions from the filed of law enforcement started to develop programs to fight this new - at that time - type of threat. An interesting and actual challenge is also addressed to the main institutions from the area of Public Order and National Security, and especially to the ones meant to train the professionals in these fields. This challenge is referring to the way to train the personnel related to the cybercrimes from the point of view of prevention and fighting this phenomenon. However, another problem is for the Academic institution - such as Romanian Police Academy, in case of this article`s subject - to be able to provide a minimal level of knowledge in this field for future police officers, which, of course, will be involved (or at least intended to be involved) in different typologies of crimes than the ones related to digital environment. Current paper is intended to provide a brief image of current realities of this type of training, as well as the main advantages and disadvantages of the current educational system in accordance with the real needs from an operational point of view.