Goals of CATCH

Goal 1: To apprehend and prosecute criminal organizations, enterprise, networks, and groups of individuals engaged in the following activities:

  • Theft of computer components and other information and high technology products;
  • Violations of Penal Code sections 211, 350, 351a, 459, 496, 537e, 593d, and 593e;
  • Theft of telecommunication services and other violations of Penal Code sections 502.7 and 502.8;
  • Counterfeiting of negotiable instruments and other valuable items through the use of computer technology and;
  • Creation and distribution of counterfeit software and other digital information, including the use of counterfeit trademarks to misrepresent the origin of that software or digital information.

Goal 2: To apprehend and prosecute individuals and groups engaged in the unlawful access, destruction, or unauthorized entry into and use of private, corporate, or government computers and networks, including wireless communications networks and law enforcement dispatch systems, and the theft, interception, manipulation, destruction, and unauthorized disclosure of data stored within those computers.

Goal 3: To apprehend and prosecute individuals engaged in the theft of trade secrets.

Goal 4:To investigate and prosecute high technology crime cases requiring coordination and cooperation between regional task forces and local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies.