ABSTRACT
This chapter presents traditional law enforcement agencies, and considers how they police cybercrime by concentrating on some of their key powers. Digital evidence must be treated in an equivalent way to traditional forms of evidence, most notably that it can be shown that it is original, uncorrupted and produced with a verified provenance. Cybercrime is not a traditional crime and therefore cannot be tackled using traditional approaches. In order to tackle cybercrime, cyber-strategies need to be invoked, including using cyberspace as an investigative tool. The police have a long history of using online covert operations about child sexual exploitation investigations. Traditionally covert operatives could be divided into two categories; the undercover police officer and the informant. The Australian police confirmed that without the information, the offender would not have been identified and, therefore, could have continued to abuse a child.
