Interpols President: “A new wave of scientific and technological revolution will change crime patterns”

A new wave of scientific and technological revolution has put the world before of unprecedented crime challenges, Interpol's President, Deputy Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China, Meng Hongwei, said at the opening of the 86th session of the Interpol General Assembly.
 
"A new wave of scientific and technological revolution has already come. Drones are already being widely used in all spheres. In 50 years, more than half of vehicles on the roads will be unmanned." In 20 years, quantum computers may be able to crack all existing passwords,” Man Hongwei said.
 
The President of Interpol stressed that all these new phenomena will change not only the lives of people and political and socio-economic situation in the world, but also crime patterns.
 
"All countries face the unprecedented challenges of crime. From 2000 to 2016, there were about 70,000 terrorist attacks around the world, and the international community has not yet found an effective response to them," Meng Hongwei said.
 
He said that about 170 million cybercrimes are committed each year. “Only one thousandth of them are solved.  The economic damage from crimes exceeds $ 445 billion annually,” he added.
 
The 86th session of the Interpol General Assembly opened on Tuesday in Beijing. The session will last until September 29, RIA Novosti reported.

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