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General Dynamics

Internet Crime Task Force visiting General Dynamics Tank Command. General Dynamics joined the Internet Crime Commission and has donated hi-tech equipment to the Task Force.

Hi-Tech Industry and Hi-Tech Cops Join Forces

Federal Crime data shows a steady drop in real crime, while on-line crime is skyrocketing. With more cops on the beat and few Hi-Tech Cops on the Internet is there any wonder why?

If a bank robber walks through the front doors of a bank with a note and a rock and demands $500 in cash what would happen? Would the police be called to the scene? Would the news media report the story? How many police agencies would respond to the scene to investigate the $500 robbery?

However, should the same bank robber hack through the computer network and electronically transfers $10,000 into his own account how many police agencies would investigate?

Would the bank even notify the police that this has occurred? Digital Crime often equates to high reward activity, with a low likely hood of arrest, prosecution and incarceration. That situation is changing in Wayne County under the leadership of Sheriff Robert A. Ficano.

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Detroit Chamber of Commerce

The Sheriff's Internet Crime Commission is bringing in outside reinforcements to combat digital criminals cyberspace. The Sheriff's Internet Crime Task Force fights child sexual abuse, fraud, identity theft, hacking, stalking and other crimes carried out by means of digital and telecommunications technology.

The Commission consists of many of Michigan's leading hi-tech companies, which are donating their expertise and resources to tracking and capturing digital criminals.

The partnership with corporate America includes Electronic Data Systems (EDS), General Dynamics, Ameritech, Xerox, Comerica Inc., Bank One Corp. and Novell.

By meeting regularly corporate network administrators,
information security experts, fraud examiners, and police
investigators hope to gain insight into why and where digital crimes are committed.

Companies contribute to the anti-crime effort in different ways. Some share knowledge from their experience protecting information systems from intrusion or attack. Others build intranets and extranets so that different law enforcement agencies can share investigative ideas and tips.

Companies that are not in high-tech fields are donating furniture or other items. The companies have contributed about $500,000 in financial, personnel, and equipment resources.

Industry Partners

Sheriff's Internet Crime Commission

The Internet Crime Commission meets monthly at the Wayne County Sheriff's Department and is chaired by Michigan Heritage Bank President Anthony Albanese. Chairman Albanese has been an outspoken foe of Internet Identity Theft. The leaders of the Internet Crime Commission can be reached at the following e-mail addresses.

Commission Chairman Anthony Albanese (Michigan Heritage)

Equipment Committee Chair John Staiger (General Dynamics)

Technology Committee Chair Eddie Bugg (EDS)

Fund Raising Committee Chair Suzanne Shields (Xerox)

Bank President Tony Albanese, Chairman of Sheriff's Internet Crime Commission

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EDS

EDS Global CEO Dick Brown and EDS Michigan Communications Director Paula Blanchard praise Sheriff Ficano and his call for Public-Private Partnerships.

EDS - CEO BROWN

Click Here: CEO Dick Brown's Speech

How can a CEO measure the risk of digital crime in Michigan versus California if there's no way to ascertain the scope and severity? How can a corporate CIO develop a budget for his information security department if he doesn't accurately know what are the risks?

To thrive in the coming years CEO's must set out a comprehensive approach to information security that incorporates local law enforcement. With proper funding and training local law enforcement can become proficient in digital crime investigations.

There is compelling evidence that corporate information security experts, alone, cannot offer an effective defense against digital criminals. Intrusions take place despite the presence of firewalls.

Theft of trade secrets takes place despite the presence of encryption. Net abuse flourishes despite corporate edicts against it.

The scope of digital crime stretches far beyond the security of a single credit card transaction. Potential losses due to computer-based financial fraud are devastating, whether perpetrated by intruders or dishonest employees. Theft of proprietary information, long conducted through the turning of employees, is increasingly performed via hacking. Information warfare attacks on infrastructure targets such as the power grid, the telecommunications public switch networks and the air traffic control system may be only a few keystrokes away.

The tremendous increase in digital crime over the past several years is fueled by the widespread connectivity to the Internet and the availability of automated hacking tools. The number of digital criminals arrested, prosecuted, and convicted is under whelming given the skyrocketing increases in digital crime and Internet fraud.

Private security experts, working alone, can run into all sorts of problems with apprehending and prosecuting perpetrators and their corporate employers can face huge liability for the actions of their agents.

Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company Vice President Elliot Hall (right of US Flag) with Sheriff Robert A. Ficano. Vice President Hall delivered a rousing Keynoter Address at the Sheriff's Care Corps Prayer Breakfast before an audience of business, clergy, and law enforcement leaders.


CEO's must help forge partnerships where private sector experts can work with law enforcement investigators who understand how federal, state, and local laws relate to the latest court rulings. Police, network administrators, and computer programmers may comprise the investigative task forces in upcoming decades.

Arrest, Prosecution, and Incarceration are powerful deterrents for would be criminals. Investigation by competent law enforcement personnel is the only practical way to solve crimes connected to use of the Internet, computers, electronic devices, and/or high-tech methods.

Executive Sergeant Greg Gordish




Executive Sergeant Gregory Gordish of the Internet Crime Task Force seizing computer evidence for forensic examination.

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