Agenda item

Simon Duckworth explained to the Committee that the last meeting of the Economic Crime Board had been cancelled because the meeting would not have been quorate, although the agenda had, fortunately, only included items for information, rather than any decisions being required.

He also explained that economic crime had been a significant area of discussion at the most recent meeting of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, and he could provide further information regarding this meeting during the non-public part of the meeting.

The Commissioner provided the Committee with an update regarding cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime, in particular the distinction between cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime. He explained that these were areas of crime which were growing significantly. As such, there was increasing funding to tackle these areas of crime, but it was also an area of increasing challenge.