Cuba promotes digital transformation in tackling crime

The criminal protection in Cuba on issues related to cybersecurity and the confrontation of criminal behavior that can occur in the digital space, had scope in the 16th International Meeting of Criminal Sciences and 4th Event on Legality, Law and Society, held in Havana.

Dixan Fuentes Guzman, chief prosecutor of the Directorate of Training, Development and Innovation of the Attorney General's Office (FGR by its Spanish acronym), told the Cuban News Agency that the debate on the subject responds to the priority given by the agency to the instruction of prosecutors in the exercise of control to criminal investigation and legality in those aspects that by their novelty pose challenges to professional improvement.

For this purpose, he pointed out that the FGR has a science, technology and innovation strategy, which allows incorporating to the daily work everything that represents a greater development of the society and the fiscal activity, with all the necessary tools and practices to be incorporated.

He exemplified that the agency has a computerized system of attention to the citizens, but more than 80 % of the answers given by the prosecutor are directed to legal orientations, that is to say, that with an artificial tool could contribute to the applicant to have that answer without the prosecutor necessarily having to be present in person, which serves to optimize the work.

In order to increase efficiency at present, we are called upon to modernize the structures and their operations, and make use of these tools in those specialties and areas of the Prosecutor's Office where it is permitted, where it is useful, but without renouncing the human being and thus linking artificial intelligence with the human being, Fuentes Guzman concluded.