Crime and Policing

In the following article Richard Sallybanks and Umar Azmeh look at the flurry of recent charging decisions from the Serious Fraud Office.

Data is now at the heart of every investigation, but as well as offering opportunity to improve the service for victims of crime, it can also hinder it.

MPs have backed the latest stage of a bill to allow undercover agents to commit crimes on operations.

The UK’s National Crime Agency has joined other institutions in warning on the risk of emergency taxpayer-backed loans for small business being targeted by criminals.

Aziz Rahman of business crime specialists Rahman Ravelli considers her claims.

LONDON (Reuters) - A wanted fugitive whose brother was convicted of a role in a 50 million pound ($64 million) British mortgage scam has had opulent necklaces, gold, silver and diamond-encrusted Rolex watches seized from a safe deposit box.

Data is now at the heart of every investigation, but as well as offering opportunity to improve the service for victims of crime, it can also hinder it.

Lisa Osofsky at UKSFO address to the Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime

Fraud used to be seen as a 'victimless' crime. Make no mistake, at the City of London Police we have never agreed with that narrative.

THE Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland has resigned with immediate affect after being reported to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and his own office by the Chief Constable.