Criminal

Crime isn’t down: it’s changed, says police cybercrime lead

Picture of Theresa May for Your Expert witness storyHome Secretary Theresa May has come under attack from a senior police officer over the issue of cybercrime.

The Deputy Chief Constable of Derbyshire Peter Goodman – who is the ACPO national lead on cybercrime – said it has taken over as the “new volume crime in the UK”, ahead of burglary or theft from vehicles. He argued that, although Theresa May “revels in the fact” that crime has gone down, the rise in such offences showed that crime was not actually reducing – it is changing. If police did not improve their capability to deal with the volume end of crime, it risked losing its legitimacy, he said.

His address to the national conference of the Police Superintendents’ Association was reported in the online newsletter Police Oracle.

The report quoted him as saying: “I would pose the challenge that crime is not coming down – certainly acquisitive crime is not coming down. Crime is changing. And much of the criminality which takes place through organised crime groups, and volume crime, is no longer taking place in the real world, it is taking place in the cyber enabled space. There is a new victimology that we in the police service need to respond to.”

DCC Goodman said police forces needed to think about tackling such crimes as security attacks, identity theft and phishing.

He quoted figures showing that there were 44 million cyber attacks in the UK in 2011.

DCC Goodman continued: “I believe the time is not far off where there will be a critical incident or such a quantum of reporting that, if we are not able to provide a response, we will lose some of our legitimacy to be the law enforcement and protective agency for our communities. This is the new serious and organised crime.

“Why on earth would you want to go through the front doors of a bank in an armed robbery when actually you can get the cash out through the internet?”

When the Home Secretary (pictured) later appeared at the conference she declared: “We do need to focus on cybercrime. We are setting up a new cybercrime unit – it is bringing together e-crime units that already exist and this will significantly help the ability to deal with cybercrime.”

 

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