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Recommendation 9
9
Deferred
Paragraph: 37
Increase advertising efforts for Action Fraud to raise public reporting awareness.
Recommendation
The Government should increase efforts in advertising Action Fraud to raise public awareness of how to report incidents of fraud.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government deflected the recommendation to increase Action Fraud advertising, discussing the Strategic Policing Requirement (SPR) and hoping a revised SPR will strengthen fraud capabilities, while also referencing available fraud data.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Paragraph Reference:
37
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
Action Fraud have developed a calendar of campaign activity, underpinned by data and insight, to encourage reporting to the service, increase public confidence and impact behaviour. So far in 2022, Action Fraud and Cyber Protect have delivered a total of 7 national campaigns and have collaborated on or helped to amplify national campaign activity from a host of partners, including the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), National Crime Agency (NCA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). More broadly, the Government recognises the importance of empowering the public through high quality communications, such that the public can better protect themselves against the threat from fraud. We will set out further details of the approach in the upcoming fraud strategy.
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