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We've published reports, referrals and outcomes for fraud and cyber crime broken down by Home Office police forces and other agencies in the UK for 1 April 2017-31 March 2018.

Police forces

FORCE REFERRED CRIMES TOTAL OUTCOMES JUDICIAL OUTCOMES NON-JUDICIAL OUTCOMES
Avon and Somerset 450 1,357 134 1,223
Bedfordshire 456 456 81 375
British Transport Police 3 154 65 89
Cambridgeshire 517 769 98 671
Cheshire 630 410 62 348
City of London (incl. funded units) 530 548 114 434
Cleveland 228 272 103 169
Cumbria 73 333 92 241
Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit 85 97 41 56
Derbyshire 450 713 194 519
Devon and Cornwall 510 1,180 106 1,074
Dorset 238 785 264 521
Durham 145 235 88 147
Dyfed Powys 50 92 41 51
Essex 1,622 1,312 221 1,091
Gloucestershire 146 522 201 321
Greater Manchester 3,608 1,559 207 1,352
Guernsey 2 0 0 0
Gwent 113 566 144 422
Hampshire 683 1,384 281 1,103
Hertfordshire 739 1,903 307 1,596
Humberside 324 1,047 252 795
Isle of Man 4 0 0 0
Jersey 1 0 0 0
Kent 1,984 2,391 204 2,187
Lancashire 767 410 129 281
Leicestershire 773 154 64 90
Lincolnshire 206 770 162 608
Merseyside 927 1,915 348 1,567
Metropolitan 22,652 16,925 2,108 14,817
Norfolk 235 815 274 541
North Wales 243 779 183 596
North Yorkshire 222 29 9 20
Northamptonshire 797 684 180 504
Northumbria 308 480 80 400
Nottinghamshire 452 2,040 268 1,772
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) 408 433 126 307
South Wales 420 1,341 266 1,075
South Yorkshire 433 644 99 545
Staffordshire 1,475 806 157 649
Suffolk 291 523 39 484
Surrey 921 1,795 173 1,622
Sussex 861 1,906 255 1,651
Thames Valley 1,193 761 190 571
Warwickshire 244 217 91 126
West Mercia 480 398 227 171
West Midlands 3,037 4,744 448 4,296
West Yorkshire 923 1,718 116 1,602
Wiltshire 218 791 142 649
Total 52,077 59,163 9,434 49,729

 

FORCE REFERRED CRIMES TOTAL OUTCOMES JUDICIAL OUTCOMES NON-JUDICIAL OUTCOMES
Garda Siochana 2 0 0 0
Police Service of Scotland 1,113 4 0 4
Royal Gibraltar Police 0 0 0 0
Total 1,115 4 0 4

 

Regional organised crime units

 

REGIONAL ORGANISED CRIME UNIT REFERRED CRIMES TOTAL OUTCOMES JUDICIAL OUTCOMES NON-JUDICIAL OUTCOMES
East Midlands  0 0 0 0
Eastern  105 0 0 0
London  1 0 0 0
South East  9 0 0 0
South Western  0 0 0 0
Wales  0 0 0 0
West Midlands  37 0 0 0
Yorkshire & Humberside  1 0 0 0
Total 153 0 0 0

 

Partner agencies

 

PARTNER AGENCY REFERRED CRIMES TOTAL OUTCOMES JUDICIAL OUTCOMES NON-JUDICIAL OUTCOMES
Business Innovation and Skills 0 0 0 0
Charity Commission 4 0 0 0
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs 1 0 0 0
Insolvency Service 55 0 0 0
Medicines and Healthcare Products Reg. Agency 0 0 0 0
Ministry of Justice 0 0 0 0
National Crime Agency 91 0 0 0
Office of Fair Trading 0 0 0 0
Other 7 0 0 0
Serious Fraud Office 129 0 0 0
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) 1 0 0 0
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) 15 0 0 0
Trading Standards 1,365 0 0 0
United Kingdom Border Agency 0 0 0 0
Total 1,668 0 0 0

 

Fraud dashboards

 

FORCE FRAUD DASHBOARDS CYBER DASHBOARDS
Avon and Somerset 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Bedfordshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Cambridgeshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Cheshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
City of London  2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Cleveland 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Cumbria 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Derbyshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Devon and Cornwall 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Dorset 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF) 
Durham 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Dyfed Powys 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Essex 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Gloucestershire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Greater Manchester 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Gwent 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Hampshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Hertfordshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Humberside 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Kent 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Lancashire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Leicestershire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Lincolnshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Merseyside 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Metropolitan 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Norfolk 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
North Wales 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
North Yorkshire  2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Northamptonshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Northumbria 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Nottinghamshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Scotland Not available Not available
South Wales 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
South Yorkshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Staffordshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Suffolk 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Surrey 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Sussex 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Thames Valley 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Warwickshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
West Mercia 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
West Midlands 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
West Yorkshire 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
Wiltshire  2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)
NATIONAL 2018 (PDF) 2018 (PDF)

 

Download our factsheet for an explanation of the data contained in each dashboard.

Terms used in the data

  • National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) is part of the City of London Police. It analyses information and crimes reported to Action Fraud to develop lines of inquiry and then sends out crime packages (disseminations) to police forces and other law enforcement agencies. NFIB also carries out a range of activities to disrupt websites, bank accounts and telephone accounts used to enable fraud and provides crime prevention advice to the public, industry and other partners.
  • There are a number of different types of judicial outcome as defined by the Home Office (see Section H).

How we choose which crimes are sent to forces

Several factors are considered when a dissemination is made. This includes whether or not there are viable lines of enquiry and the threat, risk and harm to the victim. Crimes are disseminated to police forces for investigation primarily based on the location of the suspect, where there are viable lines of enquiry to be made and when officers have the best opportunity to detect and deter. However, all reports are stored for further analysis so that if new information is discovered it can be used as part of any future investigation.

Discrepancies in outcomes between forces

Fraud and cyber crime are complex crimes that take time to investigate and, where possible, prosecute. It can also happen from outside the UK, which adds a further degree of complexity in trying to track down offenders.

There is not a direct link between the number of crime disseminations and the number of outcomes returned. Disseminations and disposals often won't occur in the same reporting period due to the length of time required for fraud investigations. It's also possible for the number of outcomes to be greater than disseminations, when disseminations made before April 2016 are returned as outcomes within the 2016/17 period.

Police forces are mandated to provide outcome data, but other agencies are not subject to Home Office Counting Rules and therefore do not report outcomes to the City of London Police.

How the City of London Police supports police forces

Action Fraud and the NFIB take the equivalent of 4,000 days or £1,997,760 per month off of UK police forces' demands by recording and analysing fraud reports nationally rather than at a local level. Unlike most other crimes, fraud and cyber crime is often committed by criminals who never come into contact with their victim, and around half of all fraud and cyber crime comes from abroad. A national reporting service means the UK can better identify investigate and detect fraud and cyber crime. 

Investigation and enforcement are not the only ways to fight fraud; taking steps to prevent it from happening in the first place is just as important. Reports made to Action Fraud can lead to the disruption of telephone lines and websites linked to fraudulent activity, or working with banks to request the closure of accounts linked to crime. From April 2016 to March 2017 the NFIB disseminated 46,019 reports for further action on intelligence, prevention or victim care and submitted 170,856 requests to partners to close bank accounts, websites and phone numbers suspected of facilitating fraud. 

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