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Criminology faculty receive grant to educate Florida law enforcement on cybercrime

Tom Hyslip, PhD and George Burruss, PhD

Tom Hyslip, PhD is the PI and George Burruss, PhD is the co-PI on the project.

Department of Criminology faculty Tom Hyslip, PhD and George Burruss, PhD were awarded a $151,254 grant by Cyber Florida to pay for Florida law enforcement officers to take the department’s cybercrime investigative training program consisting of two courses: Cybercrime Awareness and Introduction to Digital Evidence Recognition and Collection and Undercover Cybercrime Investigations Training. The training will include an evaluation component to measure pre- and post-training knowledge.

These training courses are being developed in conjunction with USF’s Office of Corporate Training and Professional Education, a division of Innovation Education, and will be hosted on its online Canvas platform. These two courses are an extension of a project developed in part with seed funds from the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences. The grant will provide essential cybercrime training to 1,440 Florida law enforcement officers. 

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