The
City of London's economic crime unit is preparing a pilot
project to collect, match, assess and report e-crimes. If
successful, the pilot could lead the way to a national e-crime
reporting centre.
The pilot, which is now being staffed, will start in the summer.
It will use information from four groups that represent public and
private sector, said detective superintendent David Clark, who
heads the unit.
"We have the protocols in place and we are recruiting the team,"
he said.
The unit is interviewing potential software suppliers, among
them Detica, which has done
similar
data matching work for the Insurance Fraud Bureau.
Clarke said the pilot would end in late-summer, and the
performance assessment would show the way forward for a national
unit to collect, match, assess and disseminate intelligence on
e-crime. "It will inform us on what to do next," he said.
A key feature will be to test reporting relationships between
law enforcement agencies such as the
Serious Organised Crime Unit,
the Child Exploitation and Online
Protection Centre (CEOP), the
Association of Chief Police
Officers' e-crime office, the
Metropolitan Police and
others, such as the planned National Fraud Reporting Centre.
Clarke declined to say what the pilot would cost but said it was
a low-budget project.