Topics The Institute of Cyber Digital Investigation Professionals (ICDIP) has gone into operation as a self-funding body with the aim of strengthening professionalism in the field. It has been formally launched by the College of Policing (CoP) and the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec), following a five-year project in which the ICDIP was supported by Home office funding through the National Cyber Security Programme. CIISec will manage the organisation under contract to the CoP. It will measure the competency of practitioners and provide a framework in which they can prove their expert status, with the aim of building widespread confidence in relevant investigations.