Australia’s electronic crime investigators are at risk of being outrun by new technology, one of the country’s senior computer forensic technicians has revealed. Australian Federal Police (AFP) Electronic Evidence Forensic and Technical co-ordinator Paul Reedy said police investigators would have to spend their training budgets wisely in order to keep pace as with technological changes. “The rate at which systems we encounter is changing is so rapidly that it’s difficult to stay across all of it. We’ve been looking at alternative ways of doing it in terms of resources and training. I’m satisfied with the level that we are at but we’ve got to target our training very carefully,” Mr Reedy said.
