Cybercrime Policing

A breakdown of the responsibilities shows that the UK cybercrime policing in 2010 involves services run by both state policing and partner agencies. Cases of fraud and related forms of cybercrime such as identity theft are reported to the new action fraud reporting centre was established in late 2009 in conjunction with the National Fraud Authority; both are policing agencies.
Cases involving obscene images and racial abuse are forwarded to The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) an independent organisation created in 1996 by internet service providers. While the IWF forwards their findings to the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOP), an organisation that became part of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) in 2010. UK Computer
and Cybercrimes which transcend borders are dealt with by Interpol. And crimes involving child abuse on a global scale are handled by the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGTF); an international partnership Set up in 2003, between different police forces and other law enforcement agencies such as Interpol. In the diagram above, the agencies highlighted in yellow are non-police agencies while the police agencies are highlighted in green. It becomes obvious that the public police role in cyber policing is in conjunction with partner agencies. The security network of police-partnership reveals the limited role played by the public police in cyber policing. It also shows that where the police force plays active role is within their jurisdictional boundary.
In Jan 2014 the Fraud and Linked Crime on-line Project (FALCON) was launched by the Metropolitan police as an intelligence –led branch of the Specialist, Organised and Economic Crime Command (SOECC) to oversee the policing of fraud and cybercrime. A review of the policing capability in the event of a major cyber incident in London revealed many areas of policing that is short of the standard set in the Strategic Policing Requirement (SPR) of July 2012