This is part of the Government's wider police reform agenda, designed to help forces target resources better and make officers' time on the streets more effective. The government initially put £4.65m into the scheme and the extended pilot, which...
The police service is now integrating ANPR into its day-to-day activities as a mainstream policing tool. All police forces in England and Wales will have at least one dedicated ANPR intercept team by October 2005, with more to follow, the strategy...
Local police forces do not have the resources or expertise to deal with growing cyber crime and online fraud threats facing businesses today. The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate...
By identifying patterns of fraudulent activity and linking disparate cases the centre would set priorities for fraud policing, focus major fraud investigations and stop information from slipping through the gaps between different agencies.
The Association of Chief Police Officers and the Metropolitan Police Service are waiting to see if the Home Office will grant £1.3m in start-up costs for their proposed Policing Central E-crime Unit, which would co-ordinate cyber crime...
Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, Metropolitan Police Service e-crime chief and one of the architects of the proposed Policing Central e-Crime Unit (PCEU), said that regular talks are taking place between government, police bodies and...