Crime and Policing

Crime and Policing

Credit card:
A lot of people these days use the online shopping to purchase the items which they want, but when they want to purchase the item they need to enter their personal bank details and their home address to be able to purchase the item. Entering the debit or credit card details cannot be safe because we never really know who we are sending our details too.

There is some theft people who can try to access to your personal details while or after you done shopping. They can steal your money, send viruses etc.

there is some advantages of using the credit card too such as with the credit card you are able to purchase the items from the shops or even online with out carrying the cash with you, a lot of shops do accepts credit cards .

The disadvantages that all your bank details when you purchase the item especially from online can be send to the people which you  might not even know , so there is a chance that someone else can access to your personal details.

The impact of ICT can help to indentify more about credit card crime by accessing to the database, to the bank statements or online purchase receipt and try to discover and catch the criminal.







Hacking:
There is a lot of hackers these days who can try to hack the computer and personal details, the hackers are the people who can access to the personal information and even edit, steal some data, information, steal money from the people or even cause viruses/bugs which can crash the computer, delete the folders and files and cause some errors.

The hackers has a lot of disadvantages because what they are doing its not right thing , by hacking the computer the hackers can even get caught by police, being fined or being jailed due to what they have done.

To prevent the computer from being hacked the user has to keep changing their passwords and usernames, never share details with anyone which they do not know, keep up-to-date with backing up their important files/folders and try not to download or open some email attachments from the people which they don’t know as the attachments can be dangers for e.g. being tracked by hackers, have viruses etc.
Software privacy:
there is a lot of websites where the software can be downloaded for free with out purchasing the license, the most common website to download free software and computer programs is pirating.

The user can be caught by the police when the user downloads too many or expensive software, programs for free with out purchasing. The user can be even fined or even jailed due to this.
So it’s better be careful and watch what you are downloading for free.
Viruses:
It’s a program which has been designed to delete, corrupt the computer files and folders or even the computer system. If the computer its not protected by the anti-virus software, the computer can easily get viruses by when the user downloads some files from the internet, going to the websites which the user doesn’t know or even opening the email attachments from the people which we don’t know and what they are sending.

The viruses can spread easily if it’s not being deleted by the computer anti-virus software. By spreading what I mean the virus are able to attach it self on the folders and files and even the virus can send emails to other people so it can affect other people computers too .

There is some ways to prevent the computer from getting viruses is that user will have to purchase a anti-virus software , turn on the fire wall, avoid opening the junk emails or download the attachments which you don’t know what it contains and from the people you don’t even know.





Police National Computer
The criminal records is being stored most often the database such as name, surname, address etc. this helps to indentified the criminal especially a lot of police offices use finger print identifiers and DNA to help to identify the person or even store the persons details.

Also police due to store in the database the stolen item, car, vehicles details or stolen property details just to help to find the criminal easier.




Electronically fraud 

There are a lot of people who can steal the money by electronically for e.g. credit/debit card details / computer personal details. The fraud can even access to your details or even use the details to steal your money


National high tech crime Unit:
it do help to investigate the hacking and fraud etc easily, by using DNA and some clues which can discover when the hacker  or fraud or electronic fraud had access it such as bank , statements etc. 




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