A Study of Reported Cyber-crime in Sri Lankan Police Station

In this paper we firstly focus on the definition of Cyber-crime and various kind of Cyber-crime such as hacking, E Fraud preparing the Fake accounts and etc. The main purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between the police department effectiveness and the reported Cyber-crimes. To successful the purpose of this study I used the both quantitative and qualitative approach such as questioner, interviews and etc. The supportive objectives of this study are the find out the most common types of cyber-crime in the Sri Lanka, how the Sri Lankan police handle the Cyber-crime cases and what are the mainly impacted ways or sources for increase the Cyber-crime in Sri Lanka. In addition to that we examine the nature of Cyber-crime based on the latest police records and various secondary data sources regarding the Cyber-crime within the Sri Lankan society. In Sri Lanka the effectively work institutions for prevent the cyber-crimes and cyber incidents are the CIDs and the CERT-CC. Then we will conclude that the mainly impacted ways for increase of internet usage, motivation of people do new things and due to the carelessness. And also we conclude that there so many cyber cases are reported to the CID Crime unit and also various incidents are reported to institute of CERT-CC. The CID is mainly impact to the resolve cyber-crimes by using the various legal actions and CERT-CC is give the technical support for reduce the cyber incidents. Due to the efficiency of these intuitions, in the Sri Lankan society most of cybercrimes and cyber incidents were less than the previous years. And also we found that there is a link between the CID and CERT-CC to resolve these crimes and to reduce the occurrence of these crimes in the future.