Roles And Responsibilities Of American Law Enforcement Agencies

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Roles and responsibilities of American law enforcement agencies have assumed a variety of increasing threats posed by computer crimes and terrorism. Local and state law enforcement agencies have struggled to undertake the vital role of enforcing computer crimes. Through increasing funding and the formation of multiagency task forces, a relatively small number of these agencies have responded successfully to these threats, but these agencies have several limited factors including the lack funds, personnel, and technology.
With the increase of computer technologies and the growing threats created by digital criminals and terrorists, a wide array of challenges exist for local law enforcement agencies in charge of protecting individuals, private businesses, and governments from these threats. Political leaders as well as police administrators have responded by increasingly recognizing the need, and underline new priorities and adopt new and innovative administrative strategies designed to counter …show more content…

Presently, local law enforcement agencies fail to provide computer crime training to patrol personnel. The need for training on the entry level can prevent severe consequences in regard to prosecuting computer crimes, especially in the field while collecting evidence and protecting computer crime scenes. An untrained officer can inadvertly destroy computer crime evidence if not properly trained in the protecting evidence. Also in small agencies, entry level personnel do not posses the technical expertise needed to train new officers interested in becoming computer forensic specialist. More often the interested officer must seek training outside the department in the private industry or from the federal federal government. There are some researchers and administrators voicing the need for specialized certification training aimed at producing more specially trained computer experts on the local

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