Crime and Policing

Action Fraud is launching an awareness campaign with support from retailers to combat gift card fraud.

https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/news/stay-tuned-to-fraud-as-6.5m-is-lost-to-gift-card-fraud-aug18

On 3 September 2018 the new director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will begin her tenure.

https://www.cdr-news.com/categories/disputes/8434-the-sfo-a-time-of-change-or-more-of-the-same

2018 continued to see a rise in alleged fraud being conducted by professional criminal gangs, with the KPMG Fraud Barometer finding that this category of fraudster accounted for 90 cases totalling over £200 million in the first half of the year.

https://home.kpmg.com/uk/en/home/insights/2018/08/rise-in-fraud-by-professional-criminal-gangs.html

The case relates to the loan paid to the state of Qatar by the bank as it carried out an £11.8bn fundraising at the height of the financial crisis.

http://www.cityam.com/290305/sfo-moves-have-application-resurrect-barclays-case-heard

The Home Office announced the award of over £100 million for police transformation projects and the City of London Police will work with local, regional and national police to increase capacity and capability to tackle economic crime

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1079/city_of_london_police_secures_more_than__6_millio

West Midlands Police responded stating: "Under section 22 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already scheduled to be released into the public domain”

https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/regional-affairs/police-force-refuses-reveal-gifts-14978622

Policing may need to consider a re-balancing away from the traditional approach and invest more in research and innovative technology if it is to keep pace with cybercriminals says Gloucestershire Police assistant chief constable Richard Berry, NPCC lead for communications data

https://www.ifsecglobal.com/cyber-crime-change-face-policing-2022/?elq_mid=280&elq_cid=77568

The roll out has now started at stations and departments across the force

https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/regional-affairs/thousands-more-police-officers-wear-14959020

The NCA-led projects that will receive funding include the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), the National Assessment Centre (NAC) and the National Data Exploitation Centre (NDEC).

http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/1434-national-crime-agency-awarded-over-8m-in-fight-to-tackle-serious-and-organised-crime

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has tripled the number of raids it has performed in the last year, the highest frequency in six years

https://economia.icaew.com/news/july-2018/serious-fraud-office-raids-skyrocket