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Police to become masters of cybercrime
News Apart from specialist cybercrime teams, such as the Hi-Tech Crime Unit, the police regularly demonstrate that they are unprepared and under resourced to handle the recent explosion in computer-related crimes.
[June 3, 2004, 17:50]
Businesses lack confidence in police e-crime handling
News Over half of companies (56.7 percent) felt e-crimes would not be investigated properly if reported to police; while 30 percent believed there was no-one they could report cybercrime to, despite the announcement in October of the formation of the...
[November 3, 2008, 16:27]
Lack of reporting hits cybercrime fight
News If you get West African scam letters or discover paedophile activity, you can report it to your local police," Neate said crimes reported to local police will be passed on to a national law enforcement agency where necessary.
[April 25, 2002, 16:47]
Electronic crime needs its own force
Leader The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit was launched in 2001 with the aim of being a central body for fighting electronic crimes, with £25m funding over three years. For minor crimes, your local police force may be the right people, but if the problem is...
[January 20, 2005, 12:25]
Net crimes should be recorded, says MP
News The government should include cybercrime figures in its national crime statistics so that the impact of viruses, hacking and phishing can be measured alongside that of more traditional crimes, such as burglary and vandalism, according to the...
[May 5, 2004, 15:40]
Police: We're overwhelmed by e-crime
News Serious, or Level 3, crimes are supposedly handled by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), although it emerged this week that the agency may be struggling to fulfil its remit. More minor crimes, Levels 1 and 2, are meant to be dealt with at a...
[January 25, 2007, 15:57]
Police chief's departure won't halt e-crime plans
News However, SOCA does not co-ordinate e-crime reports unless they are deemed to be serious crimes. This means that there is currently no co-ordinated police response for smaller crimes. The development of a centralised e-crime unit is to go ahead, the...
[October 4, 2007, 16:03]
Surveillance: Privacy versus policework - the debate
News The powers of surveillance the police wants will impact a very few number of crimes," he says. Law enforcement requires the ability to intercept and it is debatable if the numbers of crimes or cost is relevant.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Pirate software linked with organised crime
News Eighty percent of software counterfeiters are associated with organised crimes according to research carried out by the Elspa Crime Unit. Elspa estimates that the counterfeit software industry not only fuels other crimes but is damaging to...
[November 23, 2000, 6:08]
Police culture crippling cybercrime fight
News As an investigator I've seen crimes where £100,000 has been lost turned down. Perhaps it's unsurprising then that convictions for cybercrime are still few and far between but Noble offered some reassurance to those companies whose crimes do get...
[January 26, 2005, 12:30]
Police force's Facebook app raises privacy concerns
News Greater Manchester Police pitched the tool as a way of helping raise public awareness about crimes, and encouraging users to submit relevant information. The application also links users to an external website where they can anonymously submit...
[April 21, 2008, 15:13]
ISPs want more e-crime protection
News The NHTCU is set to be merged with other police units to form the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which will tackle crimes such as people-smuggling and drug-trafficking. Part of its remit will be to crack down on the increasingly high-tech methods...
[March 31, 2004, 18:10]
Home Office says 'no' to cybercrime figures
News It's about the growing evidence of these crimes taking place -- representations have been made by the industry, police forces and the public at large," said a Home Office spokesperson. We do not intend to distinguish the way in which crimes are...
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
Skills not money needed to fight cybercrime
News The problem, said EURIM, is that although cybercrimes are becoming more common, members of the police force and specialist computer crime units lack many of the basic skills required to trace and analyse computer-based crimes.
[May 18, 2004, 16:45]
Police chief criticises ID cards scheme
News Phillip Webb, former chief executive officer of the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO), said that linking police and identity databases could help to solve unsolved crimes. Today we have 1.2 million [fingerprint] marks from crimes...
[May 15, 2007, 18:01]
Stealing our NHTCU is a felony
Leader He believes that SOCA would make it even harder for businesses to know who to report technology crimes to, and will exacerbate what he perceives as a "real lack of meaningful statistics" around high-tech crime.
[April 3, 2006, 15:15]
Government defends new cyber-snooping powers
News Pointing to the NCIS (National Criminal Intelligence Service) survey into computer crime -- Operation Trawler -- he claimed that the Internet is "increasingly used for crimes" but neither the minister nor NCIS's survey gives any indication of the...
[November 19, 1999, 16:22]
UK police crack down on local hackers
News He believes that the formation of the UK's new high-tech crime unit along with an international treaty on cyber crime will help make it possible to prosecute computer criminals for crimes that transcend international boundaries.
[January 24, 2001, 11:45]
International crackdown nets ID theft ring
News Police Department's Financial Crimes Section; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Europol; and police agencies in Belarus, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Ukraine. In August, the US Department of Justice made arrests in five states on charges of...
[October 29, 2004, 8:54]
Lib Dems criticise 'shambolic' DNA database
News The Liberal Democrats party has said it has evidence that the DNA database is not helping to solve crimes. At the same time, the number of crimes solved using DNA evidence fell by nearly 11.7 percent last year.
[December 4, 2008, 6:30]
