Fraudsters Must Be Delighted

Tens of thousands of frauds are never recorded by the police.
People are being told by the police it is a civil matter and that The Crown Prosecution Service would take no action.
The latest British Crime Survey found 152,348 fraud and forgery offences recorded by the police last year.
But it said: “Incidents are known to be very substantially under-reported to the police”.
When they are reported they often end up classified not as crimes needing investigation but as “crime-related incidents” that can be brushed under the carpet.
One police officer said: “There is a total wave of fraud in this country at the moment but many officers have no idea what to do when it is reported to them.
Their senior officers aren’t going to tell them off for making it an incident because if it’s recorded as a crime it’s likely to remain unsolved and push down the detection rate.
It’s all about targets”.
Fraudsters must be delighted that when they rip off the public, it’s “a civil matter”.