When I joined the newly formed Police Service of Scotland in 2014, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) - the United Kingdom (UK) cybersecurity authority - did not yet exist. By the end of my policing career in 2023, I was working as a Detective in Police Scotland’s newly established national Cybercrime Investigations Unit.
Here, we regularly engaged with the NCSC and other international agencies to investigate the increasingly complex cybercrime landscape. The technological changes I witnessed during that decade was significant, with individuals and businesses becoming increasingly reliant on technology to improve their lives and productivity.
