In the advisory sent to the states and the UTs, the authorities have been reminded of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion about a Special Wing of suitably trained ‘Cyber Commandos’ during the last two DGPs & IGs conferences, the sources said.It is also informed to the state and UT authorities that the Centre has already decided to raise 5,000 Cyber Commandos over the next five years.It is also suggested that the Cyber Commando Wing should be an integral part of the police organisations of the states and the UTs and would be deemed to be a national resource, they said.“Prospective Cyber Commandos will be identified from among serving personnel (all ranks) in the various police organisations of the states/UTs and Central Police Organisations having basic knowledge of computer networks and operating systems,” a source quoting the advisory said.As per the advisory, trained Commandos “will work for their parent organisation and will be expected to be assigned roles according to the expertise they had developed during training in digital forensics, incident response and securing information and communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure”, they said.According to the sources the MHA’s I4C will be responsible for maintaining close liaison with the cyber commandos for continuous learning, upgrading knowledge and utilisation.The MHA has already deputed the first batch of 246 Cyber commandos for six months of hands-on training at IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIIT Kottayam, IIIT Naya Raipur, Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) Gandhinagar, Defence Institute of Advance Technology (DIAT) Pune, National Forensic Science University (NFSU) Gandhinagar, and Delhi.
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