What we said
We said we would
- Enhance understanding of cyber-crime through working in partnership with other law enforcement agencies, and apply proactive intelligence and prevention strategies to address it.
- Improve our capability to tackle cyber-crime by training our frontline staff (including call centre and front desk staff) to recognise cyber-related reports of crime to enhance intelligence and evidence gathering.
- Train our officers in the skills necessary to investigate cyber-crime effectively.
- Embed tackling cyber-crime into core community policing.
- Be flexible across geographical boundaries.
- Support our residents, businesses and workers to protect themselves against the risk from cyber-crime.
- Intervene to stop our community from being drawn into low level cyber-crime, including online purchases through criminal websites.
- Develop techniques to identify and disrupt ongoing cyber-crime impacting on the City of London.
- Ensure victims affected by cyber-crime receive the support they need.
What we did
We have
- Identified cases which have involved cyber criminality and made early arrests to prevent ongoing harm.
- Conducted cyber-related investigations into corporate espionage and Bitcoin mining.
- Made arrests in connection with hacking, corporate espionage and investigated offences connected to computer misuse and bitcoin mining.
- Delivered events to partners to raise awareness of personal cyber security.
- Worked with partners and businesses in the City of London to assess vulnerabilities associated with the ICT systems.
- Delivered awareness training to schools and businesses to raise awareness of cyber bullying and encourage its reporting.
- Identified and utilised an innovative training exercise to improve business awareness and capability associated with cyber criminality.
- Tested our own vulnerability to cyber attack.
Outcome
- The number of cyber-crime referrals to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau has increased 8 fold over the past two years, from 15 in 2015/16 to 129 in 2017/18 (61 referrals in 2016/17), indicating that awareness of this area of criminality is improving.
- 100% referrals of cyber-crime to the City of London Police National Fraud Intelligence Bureau are currently investigated.
- This is an area where we would expect to see a rise in reported incidents, due principally to the increase in awareness outlined above, and as a type of criminality, it is constantly evolving and being exploited on a global scale.