2022/25604 - Fraud Offences
REQUEST
Please may you provide me with:
- Your total staff numbers, broken down by officers and non-officers.
- The number of police officers/staff assigned to your fraud desk. If possible, can you please break this down by the number of police officers vs regular staff, and full time vs part time workers on the fraud desk.
- The number of fraud offences reported to your police force (either by the public or passed on by a fraud agency such as Action Fraud, CIFAS or NFIB), for each of the past 5 years (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017).
- The number of these fraud cases in each year which were investigated by a police officer.
- The number of these fraud cases in each year "solved" (i.e. a suspect was charged, cautioned or had an out of court penalty).
- The average time between a fraud case getting reported and the force investigating it, for each of the past 5 years (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017).
I appreciate that cases may not be investigated/solved in the same year that they were reported to your force.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please exclude question 6.
If it still exceeds the cost, then for question 2, please just send me the overall number officers and staff assigned to your fraud desk.
If it still exceeds the cost, then please exclude question 5.
If it is still not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.