Europol: 5G gives criminals an advantage over the police

Europol: 5G gives criminals an advantage over the police

Critter De Bole warns that European law enforcement agencies are in danger of falling behind for technological development of European law enforcement agencies, which will lose the ability to use mobile devices by releasing 5G, to address the problem earlier in modernizing communications the network, said Euroclean chief Catherine De Bolet, quoted Reuters as saying.

Calling EU leaders for greater powers in the fight against technical criminals, Catherine De Bole said Member States still lack the internal rules or technologies to fill the void that will open in the police when older 4G networks of the old, European police authorities can listen and track requested criminals via mobile communication devices in 4G networks but do not use those 5G networks, De Boole emphasized.

“This is one of the most important investigative tools available to police officers and services, so we will need it in the future,” she said in an interview as an example of finding abducted children. According to her, European law enforcement agencies have entered into negotiations on switching to 5G with technology companies and politicians too late.

Employees are now forced to look for ways to limit the damage when police are deprived of the possibility of a 5G criminal investigation. Europol publishes a report on the fight against crime in the digital age, which describes the perception of new cryptographic communication tools, 3D printing technology and hacking techniques targeted at potential victims via the Internet.

It emphasizes the ability of terrorists to use self-contained vehicles or unmanned aerial vehicles such as weapons, artificial intelligence, which can spread false news and quick quantum calculations that can help in creating encrypted codes. Police agencies “were not loud enough” when politicians and advertisers discussed the 5G technology, and De Boolee was worried about not repeating that passivity.

“We have to be at a table where they (politicians and businesses) are discussing the technological development they are discussing about standardization,” De Boole said. has been active since 1999 as a European Collective Police Agency for Combating Cross-Border Organized Crime, Terrorism and Cybercrime in the EU The agency has 900 employees in The Hague, which is now negotiating with Brussels to doubling its budget by 2027, with the current 138 Europol should become a platform for the modernization of EU police forces by developing digital tools and technologies, De Boole stressed.

For that purpose Europol will need more political and financial support from European institutions In the next seven-year EU budgetary period from 2021 to 202 In the 7th year, “we need a doubling of the money we have today,” De Bole said.

Europol: 5G gives criminals an advantage over the police