National High Tech Crime Training Centre: Equipping police with encryption expertise

National High Tech Crime Training Centre (NHTCT) training programs are designed to ensure that police staff are equipped with the knowledge and skills to meet the challenges set by criminals who use technology in their criminal endeavours. Students are taught how to ask the right questions, deal correctly with digital devices, investigate Internet and network crimes, conduct forensic IT investigations, and know when specialist skills are needed and where to find them.

"We teach PGP products as part of our high-tech crime curriculum to show how strong encryption works," says Paul Bayer, course manager at NHTCT.

Courses are designed and delivered by a vocationally qualified team of specialists in the field of high-tech crime. All training programs are made available to national and international law enforcement agencies.

"We decided to train our high-tech crime units to use PGP products because PGP technology is an established standard for data encryption," says Bayer.

About NHTCTC

The National High Tech Crime Training Centre (NHTCTC) is part of the Central Police Training and Development Authority (known as Centrex) in the U.K. Centrex focuses on helping to develop policing by identifying good practices and sharing this knowledge nationally and internationally. Centrex responds directly to the needs and demands of the police services of England and Wales to help develop policing through the provision of training and expert advice, from written guidelines to analytical and operational support in the field. Centrex is a nondepartmental public body, funded by an annual grant in aid from the Home Office.