Cyber crime is a bigger threat than drugs

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25 September 2015

Cyber crime is a bigger threat than drugs, says ex-fraud police chief

Commander Steve Head, who stepped down last week as the UK’s national co-ordinator for economic crime, challenged the idea that crime in Britain was falling — saying criminals had simply moved online. Speaking on his retirement from the City of London Police, he also warned of a “vast increase” in the number of foreign criminals targeting people and companies in the UK.

Mr Head said: “The internet has taken fraud to a new dimension. If you send out 100,000 emails and only 500 people come back that’s still 500 victims. We are now looking at crimes where you have hundreds of thousands of victims and they all deserve a good service.”