Agenda item

Report of the Commissioner of Police.

The Board received a report of the Commissioner of Police concerning the National Lead Force Strategic Documents.

National Policing Fraud Strategy

Members were informed that the fraud strategy had been developed with considerable consultation with interested parties and the final version represented the inputs of the Home Office and NCA among others. National Policing Crime Business Area fully endorsed the National Policing Fraud Strategy.

Protect Strategy

Members were informed that the Crime Business Area endorsed the Protect strategy which fell out of the overarching fraud strategy. The aim of the strategy was to reduce the impact of fraud; reducing the volume of crime, the value of the losses incurred and the wider impact on the quality of life for individual victims.

The Board requested that further work on the format of the report was needed and suggested images should be altered to avoid potential stereotyping.

The Board discussed the effective delivery and implementation of the strategies and were informed that this was the responsibility of the Economic Crime Portfolio Members.

Members were informed that as part of the ongoing work of the National Police Co-ordinators Office (NPCO) for Economic Crime, a formal launch of the new strategies for improving the police service response to fraud and reducing the impact on fraud victims would take place in June 2015.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.