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Recommendation 21
21
Accepted
Paragraph: 82
Fraud receives disproportionately low police funding and officer allocation despite prevalence.
Recommendation
Fraud accounts for more than 40% of all crime yet receives only around 2% of police funding. Out of the 20,000 new police officers being recruited, only 380 are planned to be deployed in the response to fraud. If the Government is serious in its ambition to reduce fraud, it needs to ensure it is allocated sufficient resourcing within police budgets to help identify and prosecute crimes as well as prevent these crimes from occurring.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts the need for sufficient resourcing, allocating £400 million over three years for economic crime and dedicating 725 police uplift posts to serious organised crime including fraud. It is also expanding fraud investigation teams across all Regional Organised Crime Units and increasing capacity in CoLP and the NCA.
Paragraph Reference:
82
Government Response
The government responded to this report on 11 January 2023. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗