How Informed is Your Country's Police About Crypto?

[Twinkledoe]

Well our local FBI here is somewhat equipped with cyber crimes and we they have a dedicated unit to handle all cyber crimes, but I'm not sure if they have enough knowledge to deal with crypto or if they know how to track them out because its supposed to be (psuedo) anonymous.

Although the've caught one of the biggest ponzis in our country with regards to bitcoin because the person has been identified by the victims. But in cases criminals used social media (fake) and scam, it will be very difficult task for them.

Same here. Some crypto scammers were already caught in my country and most of them are those running ponzi schemes where investors reported their illegal business. I think, without those investors reporting them, those scammers won't be caught. The police system in my country is I can say not really equip with high end gadgets or technology to combat those crypto scammers. Because sometimes they don't even know where to start.

[Shasha80]

If there is indeed a crime related to bitcoin in my country, the police in my country usually act quickly. Because at my country already
has a cyber crime police unit to deal with crime in the internet world and including crimes that occur in the world of cryptocurrency.
For example if there are public reports regarding investment fraud with bitcoin police to act immediately to arrest the perpetrators of
the crime. So far I have had enough satisfied with the performance of the police in my country regarding the handling of crime in the
internet, also including crimes that occur in the world of cryptocurrency.

[Blackdeath]

In my country, I see many sites that are Bitcoin ponzi and scams. These thrive because the police put in little effort in tacking them. I like the awareness being created by the Indian police. What is the awareness level of law enforcement about crypto in your country? If All Police Officers are Trained in Crypto... https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/indian-police-train-officers-on-cryptocurrency/

Not all police in our country our aware about bitcoin, but there are only few police aware if someone just reported to the police if they were a victim of a scam in a bitcoin investment. But i think a lot of people in my country already know about bitcoin because there are times that bitcoin was mentioned in the television due to scams. Sad to know that bitcoin was only known about scam ang not it's value, that is why in the near future not all police should be aware of it, but every people all over the world.

[Wintersoldier]

I don't think that country's police should be the one responsible to be informed about the updates and overall cryptocurrency state in a country. Their duty is to protect their people, to help people abide law. And not to watch on ponzi projects that are considered scams. There are other sectors of government that is more suitable for it. We have SEC, the Security and Exchange Commision that might provide regulations to these projects, and most country have their anti cyber crime protection law to secure the privacy and funds of their people.

[GideonGono]

I know for sure that our central bank had the knowledge of cryptocurrency especially Bitcoin since a well-known online wallet here in my country is registered and we can see it in the app and also you can search it online. In addition to that, there are news in the past regarding Bitcoin but I can only recall two which the first was way back 2017 where the price shoot up and people had been talking about it while the second is about a certain group of individuals who are caught by the police using Bitcoin as a medium of their crime worth millions.

Though I can't say that the entire police force knows about it but I am sure they have heard it one way or another and the government itself is aware of its existence.

[Sadlife]

In my country, I see many sites that are Bitcoin ponzi and scams. These thrive because the police put in little effort in tacking them. I like the awareness being created by the Indian police. What is the awareness level of law enforcement about crypto in your country? If All Police Officers are Trained in Crypto... https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/indian-police-train-officers-on-cryptocurrency/

there are scammers that has been put behind bars in my country but those are huge amount involves,but the smaller one?nope there are no definite actions and besides my friends case is still pending until now for lack of evidence though they have already presented enough.in other words we almost have the same government mate and its sad that victims need to suffer more before tasting the revenge and justice.

[iamsange]

I think police in my country not really know about crypto, or maybe only a few. Some of my family is police officer and don't know about crypto. Maybe because there are no regulation about bitcoin in  my country. But not banned too. Some case that appear in news and related in crypto usually common criminal like scam, hack, etc and use Bitcoin as payment.

[cutesgirl]

In my country, I see many sites that are Bitcoin ponzi and scams. These thrive because the police put in little effort in tacking them. I like the awareness being created by the Indian police. What is the awareness level of law enforcement about crypto in your country? If All Police Officers are Trained in Crypto... https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/indian-police-train-officers-on-cryptocurrency/

Many hype and ponzi site label their project with bitcoin make many investor trust for investing on hype, last yearn many investor lost their money because have hype using bitcoin site for their project like Bitconnect, we know hype always giving percent allocation every day for investor but bitcoin never giving profit how much percent every hours, depend with how bitcoin price up.

[CryptoBry]

In my country, I see many sites that are Bitcoin ponzi and scams. These thrive because the police put in little effort in tacking them. I like the awareness being created by the Indian police. What is the awareness level of law enforcement about crypto in your country?

Here in my country, I have no problem with the police enforcement on ponzi programs that are now using cryptocurrencies as their mode of pay-ins and payouts to avoid the usual detection but in many ways than one are destroying the image of the cryptocurrencies they are using because people will easily assume that these ponsiz are representing cryptocurrency when actually there is no such a connection. However, being under the law and using the presumption of innocence, police can only love if there are complaints and there are orders from the court. This is where the weakness is. I believe that government agencies should be pro-active in seeking these scams and stopping them before they can grow and victimize as many people as possible.

I heard that Indian police are focusing a good part of their time and resources to be running after these pyramiding programs which have fooled many people to shell out their hard-earned money in the hope of getting more money. This is really a universal problem and almost all countries are affected by this malady, well maybe for as long as we are all humans and under the power of green then programs like this will be sprouting from time to time. People should be educated and maybe it would be good if there can also be a slight penalty for people who are promoting these scams offline and online, that way people will stop talking about them.

[henmark]

In my country, I see many sites that are Bitcoin ponzi and scams. These thrive because the police put in little effort in tacking them. I like the awareness being created by the Indian police. What is the awareness level of law enforcement about crypto in your country? If All Police Officers are Trained in Crypto... https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/indian-police-train-officers-on-cryptocurrency/

The police in my country are so uninformed that even if I am into legal cryptocurrency, they might still take me for a scammer when they see any suspicious thing on my gadget because in my country, we have some guys that are duping some of these innocent women for relationship purpose and taking advantage of them by collecting their fund, so they have a legal unit that is set up to monitor any suspicious transaction and also have the right to stop and ask any individual they feel is questionable through his character or look, so anyone they see with cryptocurrency wallet or sites related to it may even be taken as a scammer too, that shows how well uninformed that they are. I don’t have any issue with law enforcement agents acting against the abuse of cryptocurrency, but I hope they don’t harass the innocent ones in the process also.

[Daniel91]

When I did research about it recently I find official statements about crypto from Tax office, Central bank and Regulator body for finance.
All of them warned that crypto is high risk because of luck of regulation and legal protection.
Tax office even prepared detailed explanation about crypto and how to report earnings from crypto and pay taxes.
So,  in my country authorities know crypto very well and they are ready to deal with it.
I even remember the case when  police discovered some drug dealers who bought drugs in the dark web with btc.

[Murat]

This situation has been shown only for illegal and criminal activities. When you have the scope of doing the criminal job then you are under the supervision of your territory's police, it's a simple case, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are both using in various types of the criminal case, that's why many countrie's administration are taking consideration very seriously, so that's another threat for this platform and its future, Most important thing is that a majority people are known to this platform as a criminal cave where everything is running for the illegal activities, this impression is not good for this platform. and this is why police could hamper your territory for their own duty.

[White Christmas]

What is the awareness level of law enforcement about crypto in your country? If All Police Officers are Trained in Crypto.

Actually in my country the awareness level of law about the cryptocurrency was very low because here in my country cryptocurrency is not embraced by everyone especially the government so that's why it is very invulnerable the awareness of crypto here. Another one factor is the police doesn't have any enough knowledge about the cryptocurrency and this also because they don't know what cryptocurrency is and no one teaches them on what is it so the crime that are occuring under the cryptocurrency was very hard to be solved by the police officers.

[Astvile]

In my country the cops used to extort crypto miners by seizing their equipment and charging them with "terrorism funding" or some other bullshit. The courts always dismissed those charges, but miners were losing their precious time while their equipment was arrested, so it was cheaper to pay a bribe to the cops and keep mining. But now there's less news about it, and the central bank has softened their stance on crypto, so I assume cops don't bother miners as much as they did before.

Lol poor police in your country charging bitcoin miners terrorism funding. That's the negative side of many police, they don't really understand something and they are free to charge you with any offense specially if you have very little knowledge about laws, they are not afraid because the government will cover them in case of problems sad but true.

[gabbie2010]

Police in my country were not trained about crypto related stuffs in fact they have zero knowledge about it even the so-called IT-unit has limited or no knowledge about it because it is not part of their training, we are all aware of transactions of cryptos is done anonymously thus very difficult for a non knowledgeable persons to track or arrest people involved it, how can a policeman with zero knowledge in crypto identifies an ordinary wallet? he may assume that its just an ordinary gaming App.

[Rodeo02]

Police in my country were not trained about crypto related stuffs in fact they have zero knowledge about it even the so-called IT-unit has limited or no knowledge about it because it is not part of their training, we are all aware of transactions of cryptos is done anonymously thus very difficult for a non knowledgeable persons to track or arrest people involved it, how can a policeman with zero knowledge in crypto identifies an ordinary wallet? he may assume that its just an ordinary gaming App.

Well they need to hired new people to get that job if they cant do that. Its easy to understand crypto and tracking transaction if you study it.as a police they need to learn and study every little thing about online transactions.  its because there is many new ways to rub people and make a crime  using online money or crypto currrency.

[Eugenar]

Well they need to hired new people to get that job if they cant do that. Its easy to understand crypto and tracking transaction if you study it.as a police they need to learn and study every little thing about online transactions.  its because there is many new ways to rub people and make a crime  using online money or crypto currrency.

Basically a software even though it is not directly connected to the system, can work by scraping data from the interfaces of the blockchain info, and other blockchain websites where transactions could be traced. In this case, Police needs the help of new emerging Blockchain IT enthusiast to study the patterns and make the blockchain tracing system easy for the Police. In terms of dealing with the hacking situations that happens, blockchain's infrastructure actually can handle it, what they need to do is to educate people how to be more aware of vulnerabilities in blockchain and crypto.

[BitHodler]

Police in my country were not trained about crypto related stuffs in fact they have zero knowledge about it even the so-called IT-unit has limited or no knowledge about it because it is not part of their training,

In most cases law enforcement isn't even up to date with the non crypto tech cases.... it happens all too often that they just put your case on top of a large pile of other cases to not look into any of them for years.

Only when you contact them to ask what the status is they might give it a look, but only because you basically forced them to do so. If it wasn't you contacting them, they would forget about your case after a few years or so.... unacceptable but it happens.

[aysg76]

Not much pretty sure about what actually cops think of crypto in our nation as they don't have information on such topics but according to me the government provoke them to think that they are more related to scams and criminal activities and don't know it as moreover a currency that can be use to make digital payments with safe network over internet.But slowly with new ventures and projects they will also be more aware about crytocurrencies.

[Katashi]

Here in the Philippines, I can say that the police knew about crypto but very limited and I think that they only know it because of bad people who used crypto as a front in their investment scams. Our government is somewhat in neutral terms with crypto so it's not legal nor illegal that is why some large companies are slowly adopting the technology in which I think that in the near future all policemen will be forced to be more knowledgeable about crypto.