SINGAPORE – A new police Cyber Command will be established in July, bringing together existing cybercrime and anti-scam capabilities from across the Singapore Police Force (SPF), including those from the current Anti-Scam Command.
The unit will be dedicated to combating online crimes, including scams and other forms of cybercrime.
Announcing this on May 11, Minister of State for Home Affairs Goh Pei Ming said the Cyber Command will be a front-line unit that will start with about 200 officers.
This will eventually be doubled to more than 400 officers, he added.
Mr Goh was speaking at the opening of the Anti-Scam Conference 2026, held at the Police Cantonment Complex from May 11 to 13.
The conference sees representatives from more than 20 countries, including France and the United Arab Emirates, meeting and sharing best practices to disrupt cross-border criminal networks.
In his opening speech, Mr Goh said the police will be taking the fight against scams and cybercriminals further upstream, and disrupting threats before they reach Singapore.
To do this, he said the Command will proactively take down criminal infrastructure, such as fake websites and malicious phone lines used in phishing scams.
At present, the police are already using artificial intelligence to identify suspected scam sites, enabling them to quickly block two-thirds of such sites.
Mr Goh said such tech tools will be further developed, with the goal to identify and shut down scam sites and channels faster than perpetrators faster than they can set them up.
He said: “And this is the key: We must be able to detect and take them down faster and cheaper than they can accept. This is the way to break the cycle.”
But scammers and cybercriminals are also using AI.
A recent Interpol report found that fraud enabled by AI can be up to 4.5 times more profitable than traditional methods.
