The move follows the Union Home Ministry’s framework for setting up state cyber crime coordination centres and the Supreme Court’s directions on creating an effective mechanism to tackle digital arrest offences.
The TN-S4C will function as Tamil Nadu’s counterpart to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) and serve as a 24×7 operational hub for cyber incidents and financial fraud intervention. The centre will coordinate with district cyber crime police stations, banks, financial institutions, telecom and internet service providers, CERT-In, I4C and other agencies.
The new structure will have a State Cyber Command Centre (SCCC) and a State Cyber Crime Investigation Centre (SCCIC) as its key operational arms.
The state government has sanctioned 172 police posts for the two units. The SCCC will have 76 posts and the SCCIC will have 91, apart from five senior officers heading the overall structure.
The SCCC will operate the 1930 cybercrime helpline control room, oversee e-Zero FIRs and coordinate SIM and IMEI blocking of numbers and devices suspected to be linked to cybercrime. It will also undertake cyber patrolling, open-source intelligence, social media intelligence and dark web surveillance.
The SCCIC will handle complex cases requiring specialised investigation and inter-state or international coordination, including organised cybercrime syndicates, ransomware attacks, cryptocurrency offences, large-scale financial fraud and other technologically sophisticated crimes.
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