Home Office leading urgent review into e-crime

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The Home Office as well as the newly formed Office for Cyber Security will hold an urgent review into the public sector’s handling of e-crime, to be ready by the end of this year.

According to a Home Office report on organised crime, the new e-crime strategy is supposed to make sure that each department and body involved in e-crime knows what their roles and responsibilities are – an admission that these weren’t as clearly defined as they should have been in the past.

The new e-crime strategy will have a particular focus on identity theft, with the setting up of a taskforce to make sure that the relevant government agencies and private sector are passing data to each other to prevent fraud.

Government bodies and the the private sector will both have representatives who will report to a new Home Office strategic centre as well as an inter-ministerial committee on fraud.

Law enforcement will also work much closer with the financial sector, with a set of common standards and protocols to be developed when it comes to investigating electronic fraud.

The report said: “These reforms will ensure that the government is able to work more effectively with individuals and businesses in the effort against organised crime.”

It also highlighted the role of the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) in developing the overall response to e-crime by the UK police, as well as the SOCA role in tacking cyber crime internationally.

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