Hints and tips:
...Steve Hartshorn, chair of the Police Federation representing 145,000 members with ranks from constable to chief inspector, noted that already 600 of 900 police stations had been closed across England since...
...He served with the Met for most of his 32-year policing career, which included a six-year spell at Surrey Police, where he was promoted to chief constable in 2015....
...Wen’s housemate was a fugitive wanted in China for masterminding a massive investment fraud, they discovered....
...He said police cases that involved potential fraud or embezzlement took longer because of the need to obtain information from banks and other financial institutions....
...Other accounts suggest he was seeking to evade prosecution for tax fraud; or was lured by an £80,000 salary; or that he had a penchant for pornography which made him a blackmail target....
...A good example would be Detective Constable Colin Saysell. If the BTP is the Gotham City Police Department, and Turner is Commissioner Gordon, Colin Saysell is Batman....
...If he is sent to the US, he faces potential charges for crimes ranging from sexual offences to wire fraud....
...Detective Constable Jeremy Boxall, who investigated the case for the DCPCU, called the scam “highly sophisticated”, with criminals using stolen customer accounts to commit £1.2m of fraud....
...A walk round the market town of Bridgwater, 35 miles south-west of Bristol, with constable Max Priestley and Rebecca Lewis, a civilian support officer, reveals the new thinking....
...But the real recruiting sergeant has been whoever scrapped the rule requiring volunteers to be as fit as full-time constables....
...Tom Mueller, author of Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud, believes that while employers sometimes label whistleblowers as “crazy” simply to tarnish them, this may actually be how they...
...“Criminals are going about their business unchallenged: fraud goes virtually unpunished and is not even included in the statistics.”...
...Robbery also increased 11 per cent, while recorded fraud offences rose by 17 per cent....
...Sexual crimes against children were recorded on 61,646 occasions, an increase of 9 per cent, and recorded drugs offences and fraud also rose....
...“Very often forces will get reports of fraud and will screen out the vast majority of them even when there are investigative opportunities or even potential perpetrators identified....
...Two weeks ago he was convicted of fraud at Bristol Crown Court and will be sentenced on Monday. That’s good news....
...There was no change in the number of fraud cases, however, at 3.2m, and there was a 28 per cent decrease in crime committed through the misuse of computers....
...Detective Constable Richard Kirk of the Metropolitan Police says all parties in the sale should be on the lookout for warning signs....
...A growing threat from cyber crime — which now accounts for more than half of all fraud offences — is placing a huge burden on forces, most of which lack detectives with specialist IT skills....
..., and Stephen Kavanagh, the chief constable of Essex....
...This excludes new experimental statistics on fraud and cyber crime....
...Also, the Office for National Statistics has only just started to include fraud and cyber crime in its headline crime numbers....
...Four out of five Met officers are constables, with an average age of 37....
...Three serving police officers and a fourth man working for the Police Federation were arrested over a suspected £1m fraud on Friday....
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