Following the reform implemented in 2015, the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine has been established as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The department has up to 400 law enforcement officers and senior specialists, including officers employed in every region of Ukraine at local cybercrime units.
The staff of the Cyber Police Department of the Ministry of Interior are competent to detect and investigate all crimes committed by means of information technologies and telecommunications, including computer-related fraud, crimes on the Internet, child abuse, and infringement of copyright. According to the regulations of the Ministry, the Department focuses on the following:
- Crimes against information security;
- Crimes in the areas of IT, telecom and copyright;
- Crimes in the areas of payment systems and commercial activities;
- Computer intelligence activities.
Investigators of the Cyber Police Department lead criminal proceedings on such cases.
In order to collect and analyse electronic evidence, the Cyber Police Department engages experts of the Forensic Science Centre of the Ministry of Interior. The experts take part in collecting, seizure, storage, analysis, examination and expert evaluation of digital evidence.
The Cyber-Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine, as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, performs the functions of the 24/7 point of contact. The 24/7 contact point is executing only police-to-police type of requests related to cybercrime and electronic evidence. It can provide assistance in the investigation of criminal offences connected with computer systems and exchange of operative information (that is not the evidence in criminal proceedings).