Police admit they are powerless to protect people from online fraud
By John Glenday
A senior police officer has warned that his force does not have the ‘capacity’ to protect people from online fraud amidst an ever escalating threat from cyber criminals and hackers.
Instead City of London police commissioner Adrian Leppard is urging individuals to take greater responsibility for their own online security after conceding that ‘clearly there isn’t a capacity to deal with all fraud’ and that current investigative resources were ‘a drop in the ocean compared to the scale of the problem we are facing.’
The admission came as Leppard called for a national advertising campaign to ram home the message that people Read full story ›
Source: The Drum




