Top cop in Israel
JERUSALEM – Israeli technology and brainpower will soon be making streets and internet connections safer in New South Wales.
JERUSALEM – Israeli technology and brainpower will soon be making streets and internet connections safer in New South Wales.
NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione has arrived back home from his Israel trip last week determined to make use of blue-and-white innovations to fight cybercrime, including cyberterrorism. “We see Israel as being a cyber superpower,” he told The AJN in Tel Aviv before departing.
Stating that “six out of 10 world leaders [in the field] reside right here in Israel”, he added: “You need to talk to the right people, which is why we’re here.” This is what led him to join NSW Premier Mike Baird’s trade-focused trip to Israel, he said, adding that with the rise of more technologies that could turn lethal if hacked, such as driverless cars, cybersecurity is becoming more important than ever.
Scipione is the second high-profile figure from the world of law enforcement to visit Israel searching for cyber solutions in around a month. In early March, Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York mayor, visited Israel as one of his first foreign trips after becoming the new global chairman of cybersecurity and crisis management practice at the law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP.
The NSW Police Commissioner went to meet companies developing technology to fight cybercrime, and met top police figures including former Israel Police chief Yohanan Danino. He discussed various policing challenges – and spoke about the 2014 terrorist attack on Sydney’s Lindt cafe.
Scipione called these meetings “a most useful engagement” and said that his force has much to learn from Israel’s. He commented: “We will be looking to formalise ties in this area and looking at some exchanges.”
Micky Rosenfeld, one of the high-profile Israeli policemen Scipione met, told The AJN that Scipione received briefings from various units including forensics and bomb disposal. “All different aspects of the serious and major threats and concerns were discussed.”
Scipione said Israeli innovation against cybercrime is characterised by staying a step ahead of cybercriminals, with sharp assessment of the direction they will take and swift solutions to fight them. “It’s the sort of approach that I think is going to be so important in the future,” he predicted.
He stressed the common agenda of Israeli and NSW police. “The way you deal with crime in Israel may be different to how we deal with it in Australia, but one thing that is the same is how we deal with crime on the World Wide Web. Your Facebook is my Facebook.”
NATHAN JEFFAY
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