BBC News: Crackdown on computer criminals

[Peter Sommer]

Richard's parsing of the BBC News Online story seems about right.  As far
as I understand,  NCIS went to see the Home Office last Autumn to lobby
for a Cyber Crime Squad (having talked to a quite a large number of people
about how it might operate).  The Home Office were not prepared to set up
a unit forthwith but gave about £330,000 to research the project.  The
Project Manager is Mark Castell and he reports to John Abbott's deputy,
Roger Gaspar.

Check out the following article in Computer Weekly for some background on
the problems of determining a remit for a cyber crime unit and some of
the police politics:

http://www.computerweekly.co.uk/cwarchive/news/20000120/cwcontainer.asp?na
me=C3.html



 

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