Cybercrime Schemes and Search by the Police

Abstract

This study provide an empirical vision of cyber policing with it sectional comparative philosophy. The research therefore seeks to determine the extent of relationship between search by the police force and reduction in CBCE in Nigeria. Also, the study further seeks to investigate the degree to which CBCE suspect are prosecuted by the police force. The study embraces the interpretivism philosophy with the deductive theoritical approach. Methodological choice was mono quantitative method. Copies of similar questionnaire were administered to both youths in Edo State and personnel of the Nigerian Police Force in the state. Survey strategy was adopted in this research. The opinions of respondents were sought. Cross sectional time horizon was employed. The study sought the views of two distinct sections with peculiar interpretation of cyber crime operationality namely, the youth (section A) and the police force (section B). the non-probabilistic sampling methodology was further embraced in the study. The responses from both sections were analyzed comparatively in the study. Fifty-six (56) documents were retrieved from both sectional respondents. The analysis was was done using response Comparative-Percentage-Techniques (COPTA). Findings indicates that a good number of teenager driving expensive cars are usually first suspect of CBCE activities. It was also discovered that 3.5 percent of the youth will engage in CBCE even when the government plans and ensure high standard of living for its young adult. Furthermore, result pointed that only 11.25 percent of Nigeria police are knowledgeable of the various techniques employed in perpetuating CBCE in Nigeria. The author recommends that police officers should be expose to both local and global training.