Calls for forces to make tackling fraud a priority

The City of London Corporation's Police Authority Board has called on forces to step up their efforts in tackling fraud, which they say are currently "woefully short of what is required".

Fraud is the fastest growing area of crime in the UK and the City of London Police receives 800,000 reports of fraud a year. Just 2.5 per cent of cases reach a judicial outcome. City of London oversees Action Fraud, the UK’s national...