“I don’t know if cyber police are needed. The Ministry of Internal Affairs should keep in mind that criminals use modern methods of distribution. Within the existing anti-drug structures, we will have to do this, ”Putin said.

He noted that he would tell about this to the Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

In 2018, it was reported that as part of the Ministry of the Interior, it was proposed to create operational units of the anti-drug cyber police.