African Regional Working Party on Information Technology Crime

Overview
INTERPOL's African Regional Working Party on Information Technology Crime was formed in 2005. The group has agreed on following objectives:


 * Developing and making expertise available for combating IT crime in the region and inter-regional
 * Develop and enhance partnerships with organizations, which deal with IT crime
 * Establish, co-ordinate and promote the use of best practices in investigation and prevention of IT crime
 * Increase information flow within the regional Computer Crime units
 * Promotion of operating procedures standardization in the African region.

The group also agreed on following project:


 * To run an awareness program for the top management level for African countries and regional police organizations and to start targeting all African countries with information on IT crime on a regular basis. The Heads of CIDs should be invited to the next meeting of the group to formulate a plan of action to deploy Cyber Crime Units.