[pchelpers] News:Police e-crime funding set for green light?

e-Crime Crackdown: Home Office to copper up its money this month

By Nick Heath

Published: Wednesday 12 March 2008


Start-up funding could be secured for a national police e-crime unit
this month, the Metropolitan Police officer behind the plans has told
silicon.com.

Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, who has just stepped down as
head of the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime unit, is waiting for
Home Office approval for the £1.3m start-up costs for the Policing
Central E-Crime Unit proposed by the Met and the Association of Chief
Police Officers (Acpo) last year.


Police, businesses and politicians have been calling for a dedicated
cyber crime unit since the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was
absorbed into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in 2006.

silicon.com has also this week launched its e-Crime Crackdown campaign
to get a dedicated national cyber crime policing centre for the UK.

The proposed PCEU's staff of 45 officers and IT industry and academic
experts would co-ordinate response to e-crime between the 43 police
forces nationwide and collate their reports.

More here:
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39170345,00.htm
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