National anti-fraud centre ready for action
Published: 03 Oct 2008 08:53 BST
Metropolitan Police Service detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit, has revealed that pilots for the National Fraud Reporting Centre are due to begin imminently.
The centre will work hand in hand with the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) as a central contact point for individuals and companies targeted by cybercriminals.
Speaking at an industry event organised by online-payments company SecureTrading last week, McMurdie confirmed the centre will be run by the City of London Police, which initially aims to set up a dedicated call centre for taking reports but also hopes to develop an internet channel after the call centre has been established.
Alongside this reporting structure will be a National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which is also in development.
According to McMurdie, the NFIB will be a multi-agency body equipped to decide where information received from the public should be directed within the UK's fraud-investigation forces.
She said: "I will have staff ensconced in that centre so that, as reports start to come in, and industry has got somewhere to report fraudulent transactions, we can try to provide law enforcement."
McMurdie added that the NFIB is deciding what data fields it will collate and what analytical methods will be used to draw out meaningful information from the data.
Credit: Police fraud centre ready for takeoff from silicon.com
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