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E-crime Unit On Track, Says Police Chief

The Policing Central e-Crime Unit (PCEU) is apparently full steam ahead but, the author of this next article points out one minor detail.

Where’s the funding?

From Silicon dot com:

Funding for PCEU has been slow to arrive, with the government still not committing to its £1.3m start-up costs, despite expectation that the money would be in place months ago.

It comes after Home Office minister Vernon Coaker told a House of Lords science and technology committee that the National Fraud Reporting Centre (NFRC) could take the lead on co-ordinating e-crime investigations nationwide.

But McMurdie said the government’s vision for the NFRC does not undermine the need for the PCEU.

She said: “It is moving towards addressing the problem. The more intelligence we have on cyber crime and the more opportunities there are to report it, the better we will be able to put resources in the most appropriate place.

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