OSCE Mission to Montenegro and country’s Police Directorate participate in Security Committee meeting on “Preventing and Countering Terrorist Use of Internet”

Marijana Čučuk, Programme Assistant at the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and Jakša Backović, Chief of the Unit for Combating Cyber Crime at the country’s Police Directorate addressed the OSCE Security Committee meeting on “Preventing and Countering Terrorist Use of Internet” on 12 April 2021.

Backović and Čučuk presented activities jointly undertaken and ongoing plans to tackle cyber security and cyber terrorism, at the online meeting organized by the OSCE Permanent Council, with the support of the Swedish Chairpersonship and the United Kingdom Delegation to the OSCE.

“The OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports the efforts of national authorities to tackle cyber security and cyber terrorism,” said Čučuk. In briefing the committee on the work of the Mission, she focused on the activities jointly undertaken in preventing and countering terrorist use of the Internet, tackling cyber-crime and addressing cyber-security threats. They also discussed ways to improve the Police Directorate’s capacity to combat crimes through enhancing IT forensic analysis.

Backović said that the support of the Mission was helpful and arrived at right time. “Now we have a fully formed digital laboratory, equipped with most advanced tools in digital forensic field. Since 2019, we had more than 370 searches and seizures of digital devices, more than 420 cases initiated and more than 40 criminal charges submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office. The donated software has provided us with absolute extraction and analysis of almost all devices and files that are related with misuse of the Internet and social networks for spreading terrorism and radical extremism,” said Backović.

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Police Directorate will continue their co-operation in developing the police’s high tech crime team and digital laboratory.