Police experts enhance knowledge on deleted mobile phone data recovery
Specialised courses are being organised at the Forensic Research Bureau in which officers learn to use advanced software to recover deleted information from mobile devices.
Police experts enhance knowledge on deleted mobile phone data recovery
Five-day training is taking place in Vilnius, where Lithuanian law enforcement specialists are improving their abilities to work with state-of-the-art digital forensics equipment. This is reported by 15min.lt.
The project is supported by European Union funds earmarked for combating fraud. The programme involves not only employees of Lithuanian forensic laboratories, but also those from Latvia and Moldova. The training centre houses the latest generation of tools, enabling information to be extracted even from damaged or locked mobile phones.
The instructor came from overseas. Dr Jason R. Lewis, originally from the United States, has extensive experience delivering seminars to law enforcement representatives in various countries. He also works as an instructor at the National Computer Forensics Institute, operating in Alabama. Together with specialists from the Israeli company "Cellebrite DI Ltd." he is sharing knowledge about the CASA system.
This platform provides the ability to collect and examine data from smart devices. Messages, images, browsing history and other digital activity are analysed. Material that was previously deleted can often be recovered using special methods.
Modern conditions were prepared for the training. Updated workstations appeared in the Forensic Research Bureau premises, and the Police Department's IT division created a separate network meeting high standards.
Officers note that criminals' efforts to conceal electronic traces often prove unsuccessful. Once conversations or photographs are deleted, modern tools can still track much. This is important when investigating various crimes, where mobile phones become essential sources of evidence.
Source: Google News LT — Crime (lt)