Resumen
Today, the overwhelming majority of police officers are unprepared to deal with crimes involving either the direct or the indirect use of computers. The average officer receives little or no instruction in computer forensics during training at the Police Academy. The Hillsboro Police Reserve Specialist program of Oregon provides suitably qualified individuals from the community an opportunity to assist the local police in criminal investigations. The program evolved from the Hillsboro Police Department's initial concept to train private-sector experts for emergencies. As society has become more computerized, people have witnessed an increase in high-tech crimes such as online identity theft and computer hacking, as well as traditional low-tech crimes such as fraud, drug dealing, and larceny that include a good deal of digital evidence. The dramatic proliferation in cases involving digital evidence requires prosecutors and law enforcement agents to deal with artifacts such as computer logs, email, word-processing documents, image files, and so on.