However, in the area of cybercrime in the narrower sense, there was a decrease of 26.8 percent, i.e. 2,094 reports instead of 2,859 the year before, emphasized State Police Director Andreas Pilsl and the head of the State Criminal Police Office, Gottfried Mitterlehner, in a press conference on Monday in Linz.
Internet crime itself also remained stable with a slight increase of 0.7 percent with 8,571 reports. “This is a unique selling point of Upper Austria,” explained Mitterlehner. However, there were 4,941 cases of internet fraud, 21.6 percent more than in the previous year. “That means the companies are much further ahead than the population,” Pilsl concluded. They are also obliged to take certain measures; a lot of clarification is still needed in the private sector. Upper Austria plays a pioneering role in the fight against cybercrime through the cybercrime investigation project. All threads come together in Linz, which means we can quickly get an overview and make suitable investigative recommendations to the teams on site, explained Mitterlehner.
Cybercrime training center in LInz
The cybercrime training center in Linz will begin operations in June; these measures must “reach even the most remote corners of Upper Austria,” announced Pilsl. In addition, seven criminal assistance centers for forensics are planned in the state. Every department should have an additional network so that no unsafe data gets into the police system when processing cases. 28 million euros are budgeted for this throughout Austria.
The state police director cited the increase in non-Austrian perpetrators as another notable feature, which made up 41.6 percent of the total 48,782 suspects. That is more than ever before and twice as many as in 2014, Pilsl calculated. The increase in suspects from Hungary and Syria is significant. Hungary is in third place behind Romania and Germany, “that could be due to the economic situation in Hungary,” Pilsl tried to explain. These perpetrators primarily commit property crimes such as burglaries and trick thefts.
Monitoring of messenger services
There is war, espionage and organized crime on the edge of Europe. In view of this, Pilsl would like to have more control, such as the authority to monitor messenger services. “If we don’t get going soon, we won’t be able to maintain the clearance rate because the other person is becoming more and more professional,” he warned. The clearance rate in Upper Austria remains high at 59.4 percent, “the highest of the large federal states”.
In view of the increasing child and youth crime in Upper Austria, “the discussion about reducing the age of criminal responsibility must also be permitted,” Pilsl would like to see exit restrictions. In 2023 there were 1,610 advertisements that affected ten to 14 year olds, and 5,750 were for 14 to 18 year olds.
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