Govt commits to e-crime

12:47 3rd October 2008

The government has committed itself to a new centralised police unit tasked with the leading the coordinated national response to e-crime.

The proposed Police Central E-crime Unit (PCEU), which has been awaiting funding for over a year, will act as a national coordination centre and work to improve the specialist IT skills of police officers in regional forces.

In addition, the unit is set to work closely with the National Fraud Reporting Centre and National Fraud Intelligence bureau once both organisations are launched.

Baroness Scotland, the attorney general, said in a statement: "It is widely recognised that e-crime is the most rapidly expanding form of criminality and knows no borders.

"The network is a good example of the UK leading on an international initiative which improves our capability to prosecute e-crime."

The PCEU will receive 3.5 million of government funding and 3.9 million from the Metropolitan Police Service.

Last month, a number of Labour politicians admitted that the party has run into considerable problems with major IT programmes over the past ten years.

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