Côte d’Ivoire trains 21 police officers in digital investigations to combat cybercrime 🇨🇮 💻

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As more crimes are committed in digital environments, police forces have to adapt how they investigate. In Côte d’Ivoire, 21 judicial police officers (OPJ) have gone through a training course on digital investigations, held from 26 October to 6 November 2026 at the premises of the Directorate of Information Technology and Technical Traces (DITT).

The session was initiated by the National Police’s Directorate General (DGPN) in collaboration with the French Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire. It aimed to strengthen investigators’ operational capabilities, and in particular to help them make better use of information systems and digital traces in judicial investigations.

Digital investigation techniques 💻

Over ten days, participants deepened their knowledge of investigation methods tied to digital technologies. The teaching and exchanges during the session were meant to consolidate their operational skills against new forms of crime enabled by digital tools.

The 21 officers came from several specialised units of the National Police. Two French experts delivered the training: Captain Nathanaël Valmorin and Lieutenant Sylvain Hurst. They worked under the coordination of Commander Emmanuel de Craye, adviser to the Director General of the National Police.

Making better use of digital traces in investigations 🔎

The aim was to give investigators better methodological tools at a time when technology plays a growing role in their cases. Information systems and digital traces are, after all, material that specialised units can draw on in judicial investigations.

By building OPJ skills in these techniques, the National Police intends to strengthen its ability to deal with offences involving digital technologies. The mix of units represented was also meant to spread those skills across several teams working on different types of crime.

Beyond the session itself, the initiative points to how important it is to keep the skills of everyone in the criminal justice chain up to date as digital crime evolves. It also underlines the role of international cooperation in building the technical and operational capacity of the services in charge of investigations.

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