At least this guy is looking into the future and planning for it a bit. At first read I had to wonder why they would be going this fa, but now, thinking about it, we are already there. We already have criminals using ear piece cell phones, remote hearing aids, and other wearable technology. So I guess we actually are already living in an age of cyborg criminals. Think about it.
From the Brisbane Times (Australia)
Keelty warns of robot criminals
Jane Bunce | July 5, 2007Technology such as cloned part-robot humans used by organised crime gangs pose the greatest future challenge to police, along with online scamming, Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty says.
Mr Keelty said the police force would have to use experts from the private sector to fight tech-savvy organised criminals, because it lacked the necessary skills.
Technology-enabled crime was “a new area that’s growing exponentially”, he warned today.
A feature of serious organised criminal networks was their ability to be flexible and quickly adopt new techniques, and police forces would have to move quickly to keep up.
“And I think a lot of those skills don’t exist in policing today,” Mr Keelty told a parliamentary inquiry into the future impact of organised crime in Canberra.
“A lot of those skills will have to be imported into policing and probably exist more so in the private sector.”
Mr Keelty said it was hard to estimate how much money the AFP would need to combat technology-based crime.
But he identified the use of robotics and cloning as future challenges.
“Our environmental scanning tells us that even with some of the cloning of human beings – not necessarily in Australia but in those countries that are going to allow it – you could have potentially a cloned part-person, part-robot,” he said.
“You could (also) have technology acting at the direction of a human being, but the human being being distanced considerably from the actual crime scene.”
Read the whole article here.