Police chief: Cases of cybercrime on the rise

The share of cybercrime on the overall amount of criminal cases in Czechia has risen sharply over the past ten years from 0.5 percent to 6.2 percent in 2021, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday, citing Czechia’s Police President Martin Vondrášek. According to the police chief, the share of cybercrime is continuing to rise this year as well, possibly at an even faster pace.

The most common cybercrime was fraud (42 percent of cases), followed by unauthorized access to and destruction of computer records (17 percent).

The Czech Police were able to solve around a quarter of criminal cases conducted in cyberspace last year. When it comes to crime overall, the police was able to solve 57 percent of reported cases in 2021.