Cyber Crime Cell is functioning in City Crime Branch (CCB) under the supervision of of Asst. Commissioner of Police, CCB, in Coimbatore City, to deal with Cyber Offences effectively with effect from  --.3.2010, vide G.O.Ms.   This cell is functioning under the administrative control of COmissioner of Police, Coimbatore City, have the jurisdiction of whole City and deals with Cyber Offences which come under the Information Technology Act 2000.

 So far, Cases have been registered at CCB PS and most of the cases are relating to obscene mails i.e., U/S 67 IT Act 2000.

Strength of Cyber Crime Police Station :

• One Assistant Commissioner of Police
• Two Inspectors
• Sub-Inspectors
• One  expert staff  

Defining Cyber Crime :

CYBER CRIME means any crime committed using computer either as a tool or as a target or both with the help of computer and telecommunication technology.

Where the computer is a tool for an unlawful act:

This kind of activity usually involves a modification of a conventional crime by using computers. Some examples are:

• Financial Crimes
• Cyber pornography
• Sale of illegal articles
• Online gambling
• Intellectual Property crimes
• Email spoofing
• Forgery
• Cyber Defamation
• Cyber stalking 

Where the computer is the target for an unlawful act

It may be noted that in these activities the computer may also be a tool. This kind of activity usually involves sophisticated crimes usually out of the purview of conventional criminal law. Some examples are:  

• Unauthorized access to computer systems or networks
• Theft of information contained in electric form
• Email bombing
• Data diddling
• Salami attacks
• Denial of Service attack
• Virus / Worm attacks
• Logic bombs
• Trojan attacks
• Internet time thefts
• Web jacking
• Theft of Computer system
• Physically damaging a computer system

Cyber laws which protect Netizens of India, is Information Technology Act 2000, passed with effect from October 17, 2000. Three Sections are important from Police point of view, they are:

• Section 65: Tampering with Computer Source Documents
• Section 66: Hacking with Computer System
• Section 67: Publishing of information, which is obscene in electronic form