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Recommendation 18
18
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Ensure agreements define fraud responsibilities and support between police forces and central bodies.
Recommendation
The Government should ensure agreements are in place between the City of London Police, the National Economic Crime Centre, and local police forces to outline responsibilities in relation to fraud and also highlight the support available to local forces working within fraud from centralised bodies.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response focused on measures to facilitate data sharing between businesses for preventing economic crime through new legislation, rather than outlining agreements between policing bodies on responsibilities for fraud cases.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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How these organisations interact is set out in a number of places, including the National Lead Force for Fraud Agreement and the National Fraud Policing Strategy 2019, which set out the strategic framework, through which the City of London Police, National Economic Crime Centre, local forces and other law enforcement partners work collaboratively to tackle fraud. Further detail will be included in the Government’s Fraud Strategy that will be published shortly. The City of London Police (CoLP) is the National Lead Force for fraud, and the portfolio lead for economic and cyber crime. Their responsibilities are set out on GOV.UK. CoLP provides support to investigative teams nationally through the promotion of best practice, training and professional development, as part of its Economic and Cyber Crime Academy. The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), supported by CoLP, is the whole system lead responsible for allocating cases to local and regional economic crime teams. These interorganisational links will be strengthened by the establishment of a national law enforcement network to tackle fraud. Investigating Fraud 1.2
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