The Department of Justice–Office of Cybercrime (DOJ-OOC) and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) are developing a common framework for classifying and reporting cybercrime cases across government agencies.
The proposed system is intended to standardize how agencies record, analyze, refer, investigate, and report cybercrime complaints.
The initiative builds on work involving the Philippine Crime Index Research System and an earlier CICC Executive Committee effort to harmonize cybercrime classifications.
Representatives of the DOJ-OOC, CICC, and Philippine National Police (PNP) discussed the proposal during an inter-agency meeting on Sept. 3 led by DOJ-OOC director Aris Manguera.
Among the issues raised was the distinction between legal classification, which identifies the offense or law violated, and modus operandi-based classification, which describes how the crime was carried out.
A harmonized framework could allow agencies to generate more consistent data for investigations, prosecution, policymaking, and public information campaigns.
The PNP is expected to present its existing cybercrime classification system and proposed harmonization approach later in September. The National Bureau of Investigation will be included in succeeding discussions.
The agencies are also exploring the interoperability of their complaint-management platforms, standardized case tagging, and the use of dashboards, mapping, and other data-visualization tools.
These systems could be used to identify cybercrime trends and track cases from the filing of a complaint through investigation, prosecution, and court action.
