Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 18
18
Deferred
Paragraph: 64
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
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.
Paragraph Reference:
64
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
Sharing data is an important way to identify and disrupt fraudsters from exploiting platforms, services and people to commit their crimes. The Government is clear that this should be a priority for companies and organisations and encourages efforts in this space. Fraud and the Justice system: Government Response 15 The Government is taking two important steps to support information sharing to prevent economic crime. Firstly, GDPR establishes the prevention of fraud as a legitimate interest for sharing information. The DCMS-led Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will make it easier for businesses to share information under GDPR for the purposes of preventing economic crime, including fraud, by providing greater assurance around the lawful foundation a business has for sharing data. Secondly, Reforms in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill will also enable businesses, in certain situations, to share information more easily for the purposes of preventing, investigating or detecting economic crime by disapplying civil liability for breaches of confidentiality for firms who share information to combat economic crime. The Government continues to consider the appropriate next steps for the Specified Anti- Fraud Organisation regime. Disrupting and Preventing Fraud 1.5