Minister of Defence, Justice and Security Shaw Kgathi has highlighted the need to often check cyber regulation to cut down on developing abuse of social media to offend and defame others.
Kgathi stated this on Tuesday at the reputable beginning of the 47th Botswana Police Senior Officers’ annual conference in Gaborone.
The one-week Conference was held under the theme ‘Towards Safer and Secure Communities; 2019 and Beyond.’
The minister stated that he was pushing for the amendment of cyberlaw.
He stated the police are not able to put into effect the elements of the regulation. Hence, there was a pressing need to facilitate the officers to use this regulation correctly.
He cited that every year Parliament passes a chain of legal guidelines, so police officers also want to learn to put into effect equal laws.
“Cyberlaw needs to be reviewed nearly once in a while because things flow so rapidly. For those who are abusing social media, the Christmas Holiday is coming to a head. We are going to make the regulation very difficult. We are confronted with several emerging challenges like cybercrime, human trafficking, cash laundering, drug trafficking, and other state-of-the-art and modern crimes. I call upon police officers to behave rapidly and tactically before the emergence of these sophisticated crimes overwhelms us,” said Kgathi
The minister also highlighted the importance of benchmarking domestically and internationally on policing strategies and initiatives, including response time to crime reports and emergencies.
Police visibility, the minister pointed out, turned into one of the fine strategies for deterring crime and consequently is a proactive way of minimizing crime.
Kgathi entreated police officers to pick out crime hot spots and deploy their human aid consistent with the state of affairs.
For his part, Police Commissioner Keabetswe Makgophe said they had introduced new branches of Cyber forensics and International Relations, effectively from the 1st of April.
He said those establishments would move an extended way in enhancing police effectiveness in investigating cyber-enabled crimes and strengthening their international collaboration in the fight against transnational organized crimes.
