Andhra Pradesh is one of the Pioneer States to set up the Cyber Crime Police station to deal with Cyber Offences effectively. Cyber Crime Police Station has been established in CID, A.P. vide G.O.Ms.No.128, Dt:18-5-2002 of Home (Pol.D) Department.The first Cyber Crime Police Station of A.P was inaugurated on 23-12-2002 by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. It is under the administrative control of Addl. DG, C.I.D. and is located in CID office, Hyderabad. The Police station is having jurisdiction over entire Andhra Pradesh and deals with Cyber Offences, which come under Information Technology Act, 2000. Presently the Police station is functioning with an Addl. SP. as S.H.O. with the assistance of other staff.

So far, 6 Cases have been registered at Cyber Crime PS and most of the cases are relating to obscene mails i.e., U/s 67 IT Act 2000.

Strength of Cyber Crime Police Station :

• One Additional Superintendent of Police
• Two Deputy Supdts. Of Police
• Four Inspectors
• Six Sub-Inspectors
• Other expert staff

Defining Cyber Crime :

A simple yet sturdy definition of cyber crime would be "unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both".

Where the computer is a tool for an unlawful act:

This kind of activity usually involves a modification of a conventional crime by using computers. Some examples are:

1. Financial Crimes
2. Cyber pornography
3. Sale of illegal articles
4. Online gambling
5. Intellectual Property crimes
6. Email spoofing
7. Forgery
8. Cyber Defamation
9. Cyber stalking

Where the computer is the target for an unlawful act:

It may be noted that in these activities the computer may also be a tool. This kind of activity usually involves sophisticated crimes usually out of the purview of conventional criminal law. Some examples are:

1. Unauthorized access to computer systems or networks
2. Theft of information contained in electric form
3. Email bombing
4. Data diddling
5. Salami attacks
6. Denial of Service attack
7. Virus / Worm attacks
8. Logic bombs
9. Trojan attacks
10. Internet time thefts
11. Web jacking
12. Theft of Computer system
13. Physically damaging a computer system

3 Sections are important from Police point of view, there are (1) Sec.65, (2) Sec.66 and (3) Sec.67 of I.T.Act 2000.

Section 65: Tampering with Computer Source Documents
Section 66: Hacking with Computer System
Section 67: Publishing of information, which is obscene in electronic form