Crime and Policing

Since 2012, the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department has seized a total £2.6m in criminal assets.

https://www.ftadviser.com/regulation/2019/02/27/joining-forces-to-fight-fraud/

Feb 25 (Reuters) - Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Monday it had appointed Sara Lawson as its new general counsel, part of an organisational overhaul by the agency’s new director Lisa Osofsky.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/britain-sfo-general-counsel/british-fraud-office-appoints-sara-lawson-general-counsel-idUKL5N20K2ZU

Today, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office announced the closure of the Rolls-Royce and GlaxoSmithKline cases.

FAMILIES across the West Midlands will have to fork out an extra £24 a year to keep the thin blue line from breaking.

Police say technology is helping to prevent and detect crime by identifying wanted criminals, but privacy groups have voiced their opposition

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252456900/Live-facial-recognition-technoloy-has-been-deployed-for-the-ninth-time-by-Metropolitan-Police

Following an open competition, the SFO has appointed two new members to its senior management team.

https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2019/01/25/new-senior-appointments-chief-intelligence-officer-and-head-of-corporate-services/

The City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud which runs Action Fraud, has today [27 January 2019] revealed that cyber crime victims lost £34.6 million between April and September 2018[1]. This loss is an increase of 24% from the previous six month period.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1185/_35_million_lost_by_cyber_crime_victims__increase

Tales of mobsters running building sites are a staple of pop culture, but what threats do organised crime gangs pose to the construction industry and how can technology help overcome them?

https://www.raconteur.net/business-innovation/organised-crime-construction

The National Crime Agency has today announced the appointment of Graeme Biggar as the first permanent Director General of the National Economic Crime Centre.

http://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/1549-nca-appoints-graeme-biggar-as-director-general-of-the-national-economic-crime-centre

The SFO has opened an investigation into a suspected fraud concerning three property developments

https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2019/01/17/sfo-opens-investigation-into-pinnacle-angelgate-north-point-pall-mall-and-new-chinatown/